MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A Somali activist says 1 of the young Somali men who left Minneapolis to return to their homeland last November has been reported killed in Mogadishu.

Omar Jamal is executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in Minneapolis. He did not release the name of the man, who was about 18, but said Saturday his group is looking into the case.

Groups of young Somalis went missing from Minneapolis last year and were feared recruited by radical elements in Somalia. That nation has seen a recent surge of violence as insurgents try to install a strict Islamic state.

Jamal said someone should be held accountable because “to mislead kids and take (them) away from their parents and put them in harm’s way is a crime.”

He offered condolences to the man’s mother in the Minneapolis area.

Source: The Associated Press.

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