Aboud Rogo Mohammed shortly after being shot dead
Aboud
Rogo Mohammed who was on US and UN sanction lists for allegedly
supporting Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab militants was shot dead on
Monday.His bloody body was slumped behind the wheel of a car.
The
body of Aboud Rogo Mohammed lies in a van along Mombasa Malindi highway
as his relatives sit in the vehicle in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa
Shortly
after Rogo’s death furious protests erupted.One person was hacked to
death on Monday. Cars were set ablaze and several churches were
looted.The protest continued for the second day with protesters
condemning his brutal killing.
Kenyan security forces patrol the streets during demonstrations REUTERS/Joseph Okanga
Aboud
Rogo Mohammed is said to have introduced Fazul Abdullah Mohammed —
the late head of Al-Qaeda’s east Africa cell, shot dead last year in
Somalia’s war-torn capital Mogadishu — to at least one of the men who
helped him carry out the twin US embassy bombings in 1998.
