Car blast kills Somali lawmaker in Mogadishu

  1. Posted on Tuesday 17 July 2012 - 10:00
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    Abdirashid Abdi Diis, AfricaNews reporter in Nairobi, Kenya
    A powerful car bomb hit Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, on Monday, leaving Transitional Federal Government's (TFG) member of parliament Mahamud Ibrahim Abdi Garwayn dead and wounding at least six other people. The key ex- minister for commerce and industry was driving his saloon car before it was crumbled by the explosion described as a bomb planted beneath the driver's seat near Ba'ad market in Hamarwayn district, one of the areas which host government officials.
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    Speaking to the press local at the scene Banadir region deputy Mayor in charge of security Warsame Mahamed Hasan Jodah confirming the incident said the preliminary results had shown that the blast might have originated from the car’s interior part.

    “The legislator himself was driving the car and the explosion took place under the seat where he was sitting, also two other occupants have sustained different injuries”, said Mr Warsame, quoted by Hiiraan online. The late lawmaker also served as a minister for Humanitarian Affairs under the cabinet of former Prime Minister Mahamed Abdullah Mahamed Farmajo who resigned in June 2011.

    This comes at a time when Somalia‘s TFG forces in conjunction with thousands of African Union Mission in Somalia troops are fiercely fighting against Islamist rebel group al-Shabab outside Mogadishu.

    The other victims were ordinary citizens who were walking nearby before the bomb went off. Somalia’s Islamist rebel group al-Shabab, which controls many central and southern districts in the country, claimed responsibility of several past attacks and this in which government lost high profile and active officials since the group came into power in 2007.

    Somalia has not had an effective central government since 1991 when the former president Mohamed Siyad Barre was toppled in a military coup.

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