Kenyan Police Say Three ‘Dangerous’ Inmates Flee Maximum Security Prison

Kenyan Police Say Three ‘Dangerous’ Inmates Flee Maximum Security Prison
(L-R) Mohamed Ali Abikar, Joseph Juma Odhiambo, and Musharaf Abdalla Akhulunga. Kenya Police
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NAIROBI—A Kenyan serving a 41-year sentence for involvement in one of the country’s worst militant attacks escaped from a maximum-security prison on Monday, along with two other inmates detained for terrorism-related offences, authorities said.

In a statement, Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations named one of the escapees as Mohamed Ali Abikar, sentenced to 41 years for a 2015 attack on Garissa University that killed 148 people, mostly students.