{{Abubakar Shariff Ahmed, has been shot dead outside the coastal city of Mombasa, police and witnesses say.
His corpse lay on a road with what appeared to be wounds to the head and body, Reuters news agency reports. It is not yet known who killed the cleric.
Mr Shariff, known as Makaburi, had been listed by the UN as a recruiter for the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group.
He is the third Muslim cleric to be killed in Mombasa since 2012.
Riots broke out in parts of the city as news of the cleric’s killing spread,
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