Kenya’s Westgate trial: Man cleared of terrorism ‘seized by armed men’
Kenya’s Westgate trial: Man cleared of terrorism ‘seized by armed men’
A man who was cleared of terrorism charges over the 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack in Kenya has been abducted by unknown gunmen.
On Wednesday, two men were convicted over the attack in the capital, Nairobi, which saw more than 71 dead.
The third on trial, Liban Abdullahi Omar, whose brother was one of the attackers killed in the raid on the mall, was found not guilty.
But witnesses say the next day gunmen stopped his taxi and abducted him.
Mr Omar, a Somali refugee in Kenya, had just left anti-terror police offices in Nairobi when he was seized, according to Khelef Khalifa, the director of the NGO Muslims for Human Rights.
He had been released from the Kamiti Maximum Prison and was going through clearance at the anti-terror office, as is the procedure with terror suspects.
‘Men said they were security agents’
Mr Khalifa said hooded gunmen dressed in black intercepted Mr Omar’s taxi.
His lawyer, Mbugua Mureithi, told the Kenyan TV channel NTV that the men identified themselves as security agents.
Police have declined to comment.READ MORE
Source: https://www.bbc.com/
