Two Kenyan trainee doctors have been shot dead in a sting operation in the Libyan city of Sirte following a raid against Islamic State remnants in the town.
26-year old Farah Dagane Hassan and Hiish Ahmed Ali, 25, studied medicine at Kampala International University in Uganda and had previously been linked to a terrorist network comprising young doctors that was planning biological weapon attacks in Kenya.
Their plan was uncovered in April last year after one of the suspected masterminds, Mohammed Abdi Ali aka Abu Fidaa, also a doctor, was arrested.
The slain suspects were interns at Kitale hospital before they fled Kenya and police had offered Sh4 Million to anyone with information that could lead to the arrest of any of the young doctors.
According to investigations, jihadist militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has established an international terror network and has agents in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia among other African countries.
The network relies on a human trafficking ring called the “Magafe network” and transports people to Syria via several routes.
One such route believed to have been used by the two doctors is a road that takes them to Kampala, then to Juba in South Sudan after which they go north to Khartoum, on to Egypt and finally to Syria by sea.
It is believed that the jihadist group lures young graduates with false promises of a new life, gainful employment with handsome pay and sometimes through false ideology.
Several Kenyans have however been rescued from this terror ring and have expressed regret in choosing the path.
