The security minister in Somalia's Jubaland region has confirmed that the suspected mastermind of the deadly assault on Kenya's Garissa University College has been killed. In 2015, the Kenyan-born mastermind of the massacre of 148 people in Garissa defected from al Qaeda-affiliated al Shabaab to a pro-ISIS faction, intelligence reports indicated. Victims of the April 2 terror attack on Garissa University College included 142 students. Kuno alias Gamadhere, previously al Shabaab Lower Juba commander, joined the more extremist and violent faction in the last week of November. He is a close confidant of Sheikh Muumin, the self-declared Somali leader of an al Shabaab faction that joined an ISIS faction in Somalia.

Source: The Star June 01, 2016 15:39 UTC