article_snippet: Adan Garar and two others are suspected to have been killed after Adan Garar and two others car was targeted near the town of Bardhere in Somalia.
article_snippet: Senior US and Kenyan officials say Garar, a top member of the al-Shabab extremist group, was thought to have helped plan the Westgate shopping mall attack which left 67 people dead in Kenya's capital Nairobi in 2013.
article_snippet: A Kenyan official, who insisted on anonymity because Kenyan was not authorised to give the information to the media, says Adan Garar is also suspected of planning failed attacks on Kenya's coast and in Kenya's capital Nairobi, Kampala, last year.
article_snippet: A Kenyan official, who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorised to give the information to the media also insisted on anonymity.
highlights_snippet: Adan Garar and two others killed in US drone strike in Bardhere in Somalia .
  
highlights_snippet: Adan Garar helped to plan attack on Westgate mall in Nairobi that left 67 dead .
  
highlights_snippet: Also suspected of planning failed attacks in Kenya and Ugandan last year .