The police are searching for the killer of a popular
Muslim cleric who was gunned down in a car with four other men in the
port city of Mombasa late Thursday. Close associates of Sheikh
Ibrahim Omar, who preached at a mosque linked in the past to Somali
Islamist militants, told Reuters he was the latest victim in a string of
extra-judicial killings of Muslims by Kenyan security forces, an
allegation strongly denied by the police.
“The police have nothing to do with the shooting. That's not how we
operate," Mombasa County Police Commander Robert Kitur told reporters.
One of the five men in the car had survived, he added.
Meanwhile, a
group of Kenyan politicians demanded Friday that any soldier found
guilty of looting stores following the massacre and siege be punished by
up to 10 years in prison.
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