The Canadian-Somali community is reeling following reports that a Toronto teenager said to have been recruited by a terrorist organization was killed.

The group known as Al-Shabaab says Mohammed Elmi Ibrahim, who went missing two years ago, has been killed in Somalia.

Ahmed Hussen, the national president of the Canadian Somali Congress, says several youth have been lured into fighting through aggressive recruitment techniques, which include online videos depicting a young man rapping about jihad.

Hussen says families are so worried about the recruitment that they have hidden their children's passports.

Six Muslim men who attended the Abu Haraina mosque in Toronto went missing last fall and are believed to have joined Al-Shabaab.

Ottawa banned the Somalia-based group as a terrorist organization earlier this month.