Three Killed In Mogadishu Bomb Attack - Witnesses
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March 11, 2009
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AFP)--An ex-security chief for former Somali prime
ministers was killed Wednesday along with two others by a roadside bomb
in Mogadishu, the victims' relatives and witnesses said.
Three
men including the former head of security, Ubeyd Ali Fidow, were
traveling in a vehicle when the bomb hidden in a pile of rubbish
exploded, they said.
"He (Fidow) has been killed with two others this (Wednesday) morning in
a roadside bomb attack," Fidow's uncle Abukar Husein Abdi told AFP.
A police official in Mogadishu, Mohamed Abdulle Nur, confirmed the attack, while not giving further details.
One witness at the scene said the car with the men passed in front of
his shop "and minutes later I heard a heavy explosion that destroyed it
(the car) completely," said Said Adan Yaska. Police then came and
removed the burned bodies of the three men from the vehicle, he said.
Last month, Somalia's new president, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, a moderate
Islamist, agreed to proposals by local and foreign religious leaders
for a truce with hardline Islamists and the implementation of sharia
law.
But the Islamist Shebab and other militias have continued to battle the government and its allies.
Clan fighting and rivalry have scuppered numerous attempts to restore
stability in the country since it plunged into a civil war with the
1991 ouster of president Mohamed Siad Barre.
SOURCE: AFP, March 11, 2009