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Kenya links ‘jihadi brides’ to Westgate, Garissa attacks

Suspected Al Shabaab brides (from left) Ummul Khayr, Sadir Abdalla, Maryam Aboud Said and Khadija Abdubakar Abdulkadir at the Mombasa Law Courts. [PHOTO: File]

The State now claims it has found new evidence linking four women facing terror charges in Mombasa to the Westgate Mall attack and massacre at Garissa University College.

Three women – Khadija Abdubakar Abdulkadir, Maryam Aboud Said of Malindi and Zanzibari medical student Ummul Khayr Sadir Abdalla – were arrested in El Wak by Kenya Defence Forces on March 27 as they were allegedly travelling to Somalia to join Al Shabaab, while Halima Adan Ali was arrested in April this year while travelling to Mombasa from Nairobi, according to police.

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