By Shafi’i Mohyaddin
Wednesday, April 09, 2014
A Somali government regional official has died after explosive device thought to have been concealed in his car went off on Wednesday.
Eye witnesses said that Mr. Mohamed Mahmoud Abu Haji who was the secretary of Wadajir district administration died on the spot when an object assumed to be a mine assembled on his car exploded.
“I can confirm that our brother has passed away today after an explosive device thought to be a mine placed in his car went off” Wadajir district administration spokesman Abdi Samad Mohamed Abdirahman told a news conference in Mogadishu on Wednesday.
The spokesman said that no group has yet claimed for the responsibility for the brutal assassination which is the first such killing since a new mayor has resumed office in Somali capital recently.
Al-Qaeda-linked Al Shabab militants in Somalia are known to have carried out such attacks before, but the group wasn’t yet available for comment on Wednesday’s assassination.
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