Somali construction engineer killed in Somalia

Abdullahi Sheikh Mohamed (Miftah) was killed on November 27, 2014 in a bomb attack in the capital Mogadishu.

Hiiraan Online
Friday, November 28, 2014

MOGADISHU (HOL) — A Somali-Swedish engineer working with a Turkish company was killed on Thursday in a bomb attack in the capital Mogadishu, police said.

Abdullahi Sheikh Mohamed (Miftah) was a construction engineer and worked with Turkish companies in Somalia.

“We don't know why he was targeted but investigations are going on. They attached an explosive device to his car and remotely detonated it,” said police officer Abdilahi Mohamed.

Last week a U.S.-Somali engineer, Abdullahi Ali Anshur, who had left a well-paying job in the U.S. to help the Mogadishu government with urban planning and drainage systems, was also shot dead in Mogadishu.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab has frequently set off bombs or launched gun attacks targeting Somali journalists, international aid workers, bureaucrats, and anyone connected to Somalia’s i internationally-backed government.

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