Prominent Islamist shot dead on Kenyan coast - police
- 10 years ago
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Here on these Mombasa streets a radical Muslim cleric was shoot dead.
The body of Abubakar Shariff -- also known as Makaburi -- lay on this road with what appeared to be wounds to the head and body.
Riots broke out in parts of the city as news of the clerics killing spread.
Here a group of his Kenyan supporters demand to see the body but police fire bullets into the air to disperse them.
Shariff was listed by the UN as a recruiter of young Kenyan Muslims for the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group.
He is the third Muslim cleric to be killed in Mombasa since 2012.
Here on these Mombasa streets a radical Muslim cleric was shoot dead.
The body of Abubakar Shariff -- also known as Makaburi -- lay on this road with what appeared to be wounds to the head and body.
Riots broke out in parts of the city as news of the clerics killing spread.
Here a group of his Kenyan supporters demand to see the body but police fire bullets into the air to disperse them.
Shariff was listed by the UN as a recruiter of young Kenyan Muslims for the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group.
He is the third Muslim cleric to be killed in Mombasa since 2012.