Police yesterday stormed a house and shot dead ‘most wanted’ terror suspect Ismail Mohamed Soshi in Mombasa.
According to police, Shoshi had links with Harun Fazul, an Al Qaeda operative who was killed in Somalia in 2011, and the Jaysh Ayman militant group that was behind the low level insurgency in Boni Forest of Lamu County.
Soshi who had a Sh2 million bounty on his head was killed in a gunfight with the police at Kishada area of Kisauni. Police yesterday stormed a house in Mombasa and shot dead a fugitive terror suspect. Ismail Mohamed Soshi was killed in a gunfight with the police in Kishada, Kisauni.
Police said there was a Sh2 million bounty on Soshi’s head and blamed him for a series of killings targeting police officers, intelligence officers and tourists in Mombasa.
He was suspected of being behind the killing of Simon Lochodo, a police officer who was shot dead while guarding a bank in Bondeni on February 2, 2015.