Radical Mombasa cleric, Sheikh Abubakar Shariff popularly refereed to as Makaburi has been gunned down by unknown assailants.
The shooting which occurred close to the Shanzu Law courts on Tuesday evening also left one other man believed to have been in the company of Makaburi dead.
The cleric has been quoted several times in the past openly praising terrorist attacks in Kenya and terming it a consequence of sending troops to Somalia.
He recently oversaw the renaming of the Masjid Musa mosque in Mombasa, which has been linked with radicalisation of youths in the Coast. The Mosque is now called Majid Shuhadaa.
Last month Makaburi was awarded Sh670,000 in damages by a Mombasa court for the violation of his rights by the police when they raided his house in 2011.
He had sued the Attorney General and Director of Public Prosecutions for the violation of his constitutional rights after police officers stormed his house in Saba Saba.
Makaburi was arrested after a grenade attack on a Kampala-bound bus in Nairobi in 2010 and the government never presented any evidence it had against him.
He was also facing three charges of incitement in connection with the chaos that followed the murder of Sheikh Aboud Rogo last year. Several churches were burned and police officers attacked during the riots.
Adapted from Capital FM
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