A manhunt is under way for the terrorist who masterminded the murder of 147 people in Kenya.
The country’s most wanted man has been identified as Mohamed Mohamud, a former teacher who has a £145,000 bounty on his head for orchestrating the massacre at Garissa University College.
The attack on the university by al-Shabaab terrorists, acting on Mohamud’s orders, was the deadliest on Kenyan soil since the bombing of the American embassy in 1998.
Mohamud, who is a Kenyan national of Somali heritage, is a former teacher with three wives and is thought to be in his mid-40s.
The country’s most wanted man has been identified as Mohamed Mohamud, a former teacher who has a £145,000 bounty on his head for orchestrating the massacre at Garissa University College.
The attack on the university by al-Shabaab terrorists, acting on Mohamud’s orders, was the deadliest on Kenyan soil since the bombing of the American embassy in 1998.
Mohamud, who is a Kenyan national of Somali heritage, is a former teacher with three wives and is thought to be in his mid-40s.
A security source claimed: 'He has become extremely offended by the latest counter-terrorism activities in Garissa and seeks to avenge these deaths.'
In December 2012, the Kenyan National Security Intelligence service produced a report claiming that Mohamud was planning a series of terrorist attacks against the country.
In December 2012, the Kenyan National Security Intelligence service produced a report claiming that Mohamud was planning a series of terrorist attacks against the country.
He has been linked to a number of previous attacks and is thought to have been the key figure in the attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, where 67 shoppers were killed in 2013, a Somali security source told The Guardian.
He studied engineering at Jomo Kenyatta University in Nairobi in the early 1990s, before working for a Saudi-based charity, Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, which the US linked to Al Qaeda between 1993 and 1995, according to Kenya’s Daily Nation newspaper.
He then taught and became a principal at an Islamic school from 1997 to 2000, where his ‘extremist tendencies’ intensified, according to the paper. Mohamud later joined Al Shabaab in Somalia and now leads the group in Kenya.
His organisation has lost several men following some successes by Kenyan security forces, including the loss of his associate Sheikh Mohamed Ali Kheir.
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The reality of the massacre sets in for the students as they are transported back to their home towns today
The relative of a victim is helped by Red Cross staff as bodies of students killed on Thursday's attack arrive at the Chiromo Mortuary in Nairobi
Garissa University College students are comforted as they come to terms with Thursday's masssacre
'IN CASE WE DON'T SEE EACH OTHER AGAIN, KNOW I LOVE YOU'
The heartbreaking last message a Kenyan student sent her boyfriend before she was murdered by al-Shabaab extremists reveals the terrifying last moments inside the besieged university campus.
A text message, believed to be sent by student Jane Akinyi from inside Garissa University College, tells her boyfriend 'in case we don't see each other again, just know I love you'.
A screenshot of the emotional words, written in Swahili, is being shared widely on social media.
The message reads: 'Everyone at Nancy's cube has been shot and we're next.
'Where are the KDF (Kenyan defence force)? If they are there, please tell them to come, they are killing us, please tell them to come help us.'
It adds: 'Babe, in case we don't see each other again, just know I love you and I will always love you. Bye babe, pray for us. May God help us.'
Five people have been arrested in connection with the attack, CNN reported on Friday, citing Kenyan Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery.
One of the terrorists attempted to sneak out of the Garissa University College campus during the 13-hour stand off between al-Shabaab and Kenyan military. He was caught by police outside the compound and taken into custody.
The remaining terrorists were killed after Kenyan military stormed the dormitory where they murdered many of their 147 victims.
Three of the dead were policemen, three were soldiers and 142 were students.
The release of the photographs comes as it emerged that the callous terrorists called the family of a girl they had just murdered using her mobile phone to ask her father to ring the Kenyan president, and order him to remove his troops from Somalia.
Other photographs posted on Twitter claimed to show victims of the massacre, murdered in a classroom, and another shocking image depicting about 100 bodies lying face down in a courtyard.
Elizabeth Namarome Musinai, a 20-year-old student who was studying teaching, called home from the university and frantically told her father: 'There are gunshots everywhere. Tell Mum to pray for me - I don't know if I will survive.'
The call at dawn was one of several her family received as the attack and hostage drama unfolded at Garissa University College.
At about 1pm, a man got on the line to demand that the President be contacted within two minutes and told to remove troops from neighboring Somalia, where they are fighting al-Shabab extremists.
Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga said this was one of the terrorists responsible for Thursday's attack
The men attacked Garissa University College Thursday morning killing 147 people and injuring more than 70
Kenyan security forces spent 13 hours exchanging gunfire with the terrorists before the last one was killed
Kenyan security officials believe this man is one of the terrorists who tried to escape from the compound
Workers ride in a truck carrying the dead bodies from the scene of the attack at Garissa University College
The victims' bodies were transported to Nairobi to a morgue where the grim identification process has begun
Garissa Governor Nathif Jama consoles injured students at a hospital on April 2, 2015 in Garissa, Kenya
Relatives queued outside the morgue in Chiromo where they waited to identify the bodies of their loved ones
Grief-stricken locals could not hide their anguish in the wake of Kenya's worst terrorist attack since 1998
Survivors of Thursday's al-Shabaab massacre hugged each other as they came to terms with the atrocity
As survivors consoled each other in Garissa today, it has emerged that the Al Shabaab terrorists who carried out the senseless attack made a sickening phone call to the father of a schoolgirl they killed
Massacre: Soldiers enter the university compound in a truck in Garissa, Kenya the day after the attack
Troops also stood guard outside the campus of Garissa University College following Thursday's massacre
Kenyan police stood guard at the entrance of Garissa Hospital over fears of a repeat al-Shabaab attack
Kenyan Muslims demonstrate in the streets and show their support for the Christians who were killed and their families
Muslims in Garissa today took to the streets to support their Christian neighbours and condemn the attack
Kenyans have been mourning the 147 people who died after being ordered by the terrorists to recite verses from the Koran at gunpoint to avoid being shot
One woman (not pictured) claimed she hid under the bodies of two of her friends to avoid the attention of the gunmen at Garissa University College
Returning home: Survivors of the massacre boarded a bus earlier today to go home for the Easter holidays
Many of the survivors are being housed temporarily at Garissa Military Camp until they can be brought home
Fatuma Saln, seated, hands female students some feminine hygiene products to help them in the camp
Permanent closure? Many of the survivors, pictured, have been told that the college in Garissa will be closed for good
The students who survived the massacre face an uncertain future after the campus was closed indefinitely
Medics continued to treat the wounded after those with the most serious injuries were airlifted to Nairobi
Attack: Masked gunmen stormed the Garissa University College campus, in Kenya's north-east on Thursday
Staff arriving back at the college this morning had to show their ID to enter the campus to survey the aftermath
Some patients were flown overnight to Nairobi to receive specialist treatment not available in Garissa
Soldiers carried some of the badly wounded survivors to safety amid the intense gun fighting on Thursday
He studied engineering at Jomo Kenyatta University in Nairobi in the early 1990s, before working for a Saudi-based charity, Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, which the US linked to Al Qaeda between 1993 and 1995, according to Kenya’s Daily Nation newspaper.
He then taught and became a principal at an Islamic school from 1997 to 2000, where his ‘extremist tendencies’ intensified, according to the paper. Mohamud later joined Al Shabaab in Somalia and now leads the group in Kenya.
His organisation has lost several men following some successes by Kenyan security forces, including the loss of his associate Sheikh Mohamed Ali Kheir.
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The reality of the massacre sets in for the students as they are transported back to their home towns today
The relative of a victim is helped by Red Cross staff as bodies of students killed on Thursday's attack arrive at the Chiromo Mortuary in Nairobi
Garissa University College students are comforted as they come to terms with Thursday's masssacre
'IN CASE WE DON'T SEE EACH OTHER AGAIN, KNOW I LOVE YOU'
The heartbreaking last message a Kenyan student sent her boyfriend before she was murdered by al-Shabaab extremists reveals the terrifying last moments inside the besieged university campus.
A text message, believed to be sent by student Jane Akinyi from inside Garissa University College, tells her boyfriend 'in case we don't see each other again, just know I love you'.
A screenshot of the emotional words, written in Swahili, is being shared widely on social media.
The message reads: 'Everyone at Nancy's cube has been shot and we're next.
'Where are the KDF (Kenyan defence force)? If they are there, please tell them to come, they are killing us, please tell them to come help us.'
It adds: 'Babe, in case we don't see each other again, just know I love you and I will always love you. Bye babe, pray for us. May God help us.'
Five people have been arrested in connection with the attack, CNN reported on Friday, citing Kenyan Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery.
One of the terrorists attempted to sneak out of the Garissa University College campus during the 13-hour stand off between al-Shabaab and Kenyan military. He was caught by police outside the compound and taken into custody.
The remaining terrorists were killed after Kenyan military stormed the dormitory where they murdered many of their 147 victims.
Three of the dead were policemen, three were soldiers and 142 were students.
The release of the photographs comes as it emerged that the callous terrorists called the family of a girl they had just murdered using her mobile phone to ask her father to ring the Kenyan president, and order him to remove his troops from Somalia.
Other photographs posted on Twitter claimed to show victims of the massacre, murdered in a classroom, and another shocking image depicting about 100 bodies lying face down in a courtyard.
Elizabeth Namarome Musinai, a 20-year-old student who was studying teaching, called home from the university and frantically told her father: 'There are gunshots everywhere. Tell Mum to pray for me - I don't know if I will survive.'
The call at dawn was one of several her family received as the attack and hostage drama unfolded at Garissa University College.
At about 1pm, a man got on the line to demand that the President be contacted within two minutes and told to remove troops from neighboring Somalia, where they are fighting al-Shabab extremists.
Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga said this was one of the terrorists responsible for Thursday's attack
The men attacked Garissa University College Thursday morning killing 147 people and injuring more than 70
Kenyan security forces spent 13 hours exchanging gunfire with the terrorists before the last one was killed
Kenyan security officials believe this man is one of the terrorists who tried to escape from the compound
Workers ride in a truck carrying the dead bodies from the scene of the attack at Garissa University College
The victims' bodies were transported to Nairobi to a morgue where the grim identification process has begun
Garissa Governor Nathif Jama consoles injured students at a hospital on April 2, 2015 in Garissa, Kenya
Relatives queued outside the morgue in Chiromo where they waited to identify the bodies of their loved ones
Grief-stricken locals could not hide their anguish in the wake of Kenya's worst terrorist attack since 1998
Survivors of Thursday's al-Shabaab massacre hugged each other as they came to terms with the atrocity
As survivors consoled each other in Garissa today, it has emerged that the Al Shabaab terrorists who carried out the senseless attack made a sickening phone call to the father of a schoolgirl they killed
Massacre: Soldiers enter the university compound in a truck in Garissa, Kenya the day after the attack
Troops also stood guard outside the campus of Garissa University College following Thursday's massacre
Kenyan police stood guard at the entrance of Garissa Hospital over fears of a repeat al-Shabaab attack
Kenyan Muslims demonstrate in the streets and show their support for the Christians who were killed and their families
Muslims in Garissa today took to the streets to support their Christian neighbours and condemn the attack
Kenyans have been mourning the 147 people who died after being ordered by the terrorists to recite verses from the Koran at gunpoint to avoid being shot
One woman (not pictured) claimed she hid under the bodies of two of her friends to avoid the attention of the gunmen at Garissa University College
Returning home: Survivors of the massacre boarded a bus earlier today to go home for the Easter holidays
Many of the survivors are being housed temporarily at Garissa Military Camp until they can be brought home
Fatuma Saln, seated, hands female students some feminine hygiene products to help them in the camp
Permanent closure? Many of the survivors, pictured, have been told that the college in Garissa will be closed for good
The students who survived the massacre face an uncertain future after the campus was closed indefinitely
Medics continued to treat the wounded after those with the most serious injuries were airlifted to Nairobi
Attack: Masked gunmen stormed the Garissa University College campus, in Kenya's north-east on Thursday
Staff arriving back at the college this morning had to show their ID to enter the campus to survey the aftermath
Some patients were flown overnight to Nairobi to receive specialist treatment not available in Garissa
Soldiers carried some of the badly wounded survivors to safety amid the intense gun fighting on Thursday
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