Police in Kenya say the man suspected of masterminding the 1998 US Embassy bombings in East Africa, has reportedly been killed in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, 38, was widely regarded as the most wanted man in Africa. The FBI had a $US5 million bounty on him.
More than 220 people died and 5000 were injured in the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, al-Qaeda's first major attack on US targets.
A government official said two men were killed at a roadblock on the outskirts of the capital on Tuesday night, when they refused to stop.
They were in a pick-up truck full of medicine, laptops and mobile phones.
Kenyan Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere said the identity of one of the two had ''been given as Fazul Muhammad ... That is what we have been told by our counterparts in Somalia.''
The BBC reports Fazul Muhammad was believed to have been working recently with the al-Shabab group, which controls much of southern Somalia.
