Westgate Attack Planner Killed In Somalia

Adan Gur was killed on Thursday by a drone strike in Somalia.

Garar and two others are said to have been killed after their car was targeted near the town of Bardhere.

Garar is said to have been in the planning of the four day siege at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi that left at least 67 people dead and hundreds of others injured.

The Al Shabaab said it carried out the attack in response to Kenya's military operations in Somalia. Four of their gunmen were said to have died in the attack.

The Kenyan authorities were criticised at the time for what was seen by some analysts as a slow response to the attack and also lack of co-ordination between police and the army, an accusation strongly rejected by the country’s government.

Garar is also suspected of planning failed attacks on Kenya’s coast and in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, last year.