Kenya: Preacher Shot Dead In Kenya

Gunmen in Kenya have killed four people, including a Muslim cleric linked to a radical mosque in the port city of Mombasa in a drive-by shooting, police said. The attack took place late on Thursday. Sheikh Ibrahim Ismail preached at Mombasa's Masjid Musa mosque, which attracts some radical followers. He was viewed as the successor to Aboud Rogo Mohammed, a controversial preacher accused of links to Somalia's Shabab fighters, who was himself assassinated in a drive-by shooting in August 2012. "They were five people in a vehicle when it was sprayed with bullets," a senior police officer said on Friday from the scene, adding that one passenger survived. An AFP reporter at the scene said the car, the windows smashed and the doors riddled with bullet holes, had veered off the main coastal highway running north out of Mombasa. Last month, the al-Shabab launched a deadly assault on an upmarket Nairobi shopping mall, killing at least 67 people in a four-day bloodbath. The armed group has threatened to carry out further attacks if Kenya does not pull its troops out of Somalia.

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