Monday, May 27, 2013
A Kenyan police official says the country’s anti-terrorism police
have killed a wanted terrorist and recovered a cache of weapons in the
port city of Mombasa.
Police official Boniface Mwaniki said Sunday that Khalid Ahmed
was trailed by police from the capital Nairobi to Mombasa where he was
killed in a dawn exchange of fire at his mother’s house. Mwaniki says
the Somali national sneaked into Kenya from Somalia where he had
undergone paramilitary training.
Mwaniki said police recovered a hand grenade, a pistol and ammunition
inside the house. He said some police officers were wounded in the
shootout with Ahmed.
Kenya has had a growing terror problem since
2011 when it sent its troops to fight Islamic militants inside Somalia.
Al-Shabab has since then staged retaliatory attacks inside Kenya.