US blacklists two Shebab leaders after UN bus attack

April 21, 2015 23:22

The United States blacklisted two top leaders of Somalia's Shebab today, a day after the Islamist group killed seven people, including four UN workers, in a huge bus bombing.

Ahmed Diriye, who took over as the militant group's leader in September 2014, and intelligence chief Mahad Karate, were both designated as terrorists by the State Department.

US officials said the group was behind several atrocities, including the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi and the April 2 massacre at Garissa University in Kenya in which 148 people were killed.

Yesterday's attack on a UN staff bus in the northeastern Somali town of Garowe killed seven people including four staff working for the children's agency UNICEF. Four other UNICEF workers were in a serious condition.

Somalia's Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab insurgents claimed responsibility for the attack, branding the United Nations a "colonization force in Somalia."

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