Parents’ agony as two students join Al -Shabaab

Suspected Al shaabab brides from left Umur Kheir, Mariam Said and Khadijah Abubakar at the Mombasa Court on Monday,030th March,2015. Kheir, a Tanzanian and the two Kenyans from Malindi were arrested by Kenyan Securities at Elwak in Mandera Border suspected to be going to join Al Shaabab group in Somalia and be used as suicide bombers. [PHOTO BY MAARUFU MOHAMED/STANDARD]

Two university students, one of them the son of a senior government official, are believed to have abandoned their studies and joined the Al-Shabaab terror group in Somalia.

Mahmoud Ahmed, a second year Bachelor of Science student at the University of Nairobi (UoN), and his cousin Mohamed Abdulswamed, a student at Moi University, have been missing since April 21.