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Al Shabaab bride planned escape a day before attack, whereabouts unknown

Violet Kemunto Omwoyo. [Courtesy]

The wife of a terrorist implicated in last Tuesday’s attack on dusitD2 hotel sent her luggage by courier to a town on the border between Kenya and Somalia.

Violet Kemunto Omwoyo sent the luggage that included personal items such as clothes from Nairobi last week and was to collect it in Mandera town on Wednesday – a day after the attack in which 21 people were killed.

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