Hiiraan Online
Monday, February 16, 2015
MOGADISHU (HOL) --- Four people including three Somali government officials were killed in a drive-by shooting in the Somali capital Monday, officials said.
Armed militants travelling in a car have sprayed bullets on a car carrying three senior civil aviation officials at Mogadishu's landmark KM4 junction. The murder of the officials is the latest in a series of
drive-by shootings in the seaside capital.
Witnesses told HOL that the assailants escaped after the attack which occurred in an area considered to be safe in Mogadishu.
The Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabab group claimed the responsibility for the attack.
"Our special forces carried out that attack, and we shall continue such attacks." The group said in a statement issued after the attack.
The attack comes one day after unidentified gunmen have killed a public servant with the international planning ministry on Sunday in the west of Mogadishu.