This archive report was first published on 21 December 2019.
Published on December 21, 2019, a police manhunt was launched for a terror suspect linked to the gruesome murder of a Lamu County chief and his assistant.
Chief Mohamed Haji Famau and his assistant Malik Athman Shee were hacked to death in Mbwajumwali village, with two assailants reportedly clad in bui buis storming into their offices armed with machetes.
According to a police brief, one of the assailants is terror suspect Kassim Ahmed Ali, a brown-skinned young man who was previously arrested in March 2016 for allegedly attempting to join the terror group Al-Shabaab.
"Police reports indicate that Kassim was positively identified by the public as one of the attackers who carried out the gruesome hacking of the two local administrators," reads the police statement.
Police believe Mr. Ali has already crossed into Somalia through the border near the Mbwajumwali village and are calling on the public to report any information on his whereabouts to the nearest police station.
