Norwegian suspect named as Kenya mall gunman
Norwegian citizen 23-year-old Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow is suspected of helping to plan and carry out Westgate mall attack
A Norwegian citizen of Somali origin is suspected of being one of the attackers who stormed a Kenyan shopping mall last month massacring 67 people, the BBC said.
The 23-year-old was named as Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow, who the BBC said is suspected of helping to plan and carry out the attack on the upmarket Westgate mall.
Dhuhulow was born in Somalia, but he and his family moved to Norway as refugees in 1999, according to relatives who spoke to the BBC from the Norwegian town of Larvik, 120 kilometres south of the capital Oslo.
The BBC quoted one of Dhuhulow’s former neighbours Morten Henriksen, who described the young man.
“He was pretty extreme, didn’t like life in Norway ... got into trouble, fights, his father was worried,” Henriksen told the BBC, speaking of Dhuhulow as a teenager.
Last week Norway’s PST intelligence agency said it had launched a probe after it obtained information about the possible involvement of a Norwegian of Somali origin in both planning and carrying out the attack.