Somali officials say the organizer of last year’s massacre at Garissa University College in Kenya is dead, killed in a late-night military operation.
Mohamed Mohamud, better known as Dulyadeyn, was head of al-Shabab’s feared “Amniyat” unit and masterminded the April 2015 attack on the college that left 148 people dead, nearly all of them students.
A senior Somali official, speaking on condition of anonymity, says U.S. helicopters fired missiles, hitting the car in which Dulyadeyn and two others were travelling.
However, a security minister in the Jubba region, Abdurashid Janan, told VOA Somali that the militant was killed by the U.S.-trained Somali commando unit known as Danab, or lightning.
The attack took place in the southern Somali town of Bula-Gaduud, about 30 kilometers north of Kismayo.