Norwegian town shocked by Somali resident's link to Nairobi attack
Somali raised in small seaside community probed for involvement in Nairobi mall attack - stunning his relatives and neighbours
As a boy, the young Somali immigrant sold newspapers door to door in the peaceful seaside Norwegian town of Larvik and told neighbours he was going to be a doctor and help people in Africa.
In high school, he began bringing a prayer rug to school, but in a community with many Somalis - not to mention Muslims from Libya, Chechnya and elsewhere - he hardly stood out.
And he rarely got into even mild trouble.
But with grades that fell short of medical-school requirements, Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow struggled to find a job after high school and began visiting radical jihadist websites. In 2009, he took the first of several trips back to Somalia.
Norwegian investigators now want to know whether the boy who wanted to be a healer grew up to be a killer. They are questioning relatives and friends of Dhuhulow, 23, to try to determine whether he was one of the four attackers caught on surveillance cameras during the rampage at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, last month, when more than 60 men, women and children were killed.
Dhuhulow's sister said in Larvik: "It's still hard to believe. I can't bear the thought of this actually being true. It's just too much to come to terms with."