Muhyadin Ahmed Roble, AfricaNews reporter in Nairobi, Somalia Photo: Guled Hussein
Unknown assailants have shot a Supreme Court judge and a lawmaker dead in the autonomous town of Puntland on Wednesday evening, eye witnesses said. Mohamed Abdi Aware, a judge was killed in the region's commercial capital Bossaso while lawmaker Ibrahim Elmi Gab was murdered minutes later in the Puntland capital of Garowe.
Colonel Mohamed Warsameh, a Bossaso police officer said masked men killed Aware when he left a mosque in the city after performing his evening prayers. An eye witness said he saw gunmen shoot Aware in the head and chest.
In a related event gunmen killed Gab – a member of Puntland Parliament as he left a tea shop in Garowe. Ahmed Moalim Nur, a police officer in Garowe said they are investigating the incident.
Nur said the assassination happened an hour after they got information that the supreme court judge was killed in Bossaso, adding "we are not yet sure if the two incidents are related."
The semi-autonomous Puntland town in northeastern Somalia is a peaceful region with its own administration.
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