Somalia’s Al-Shabaab insurgents assassinated a lawmaker and his guards, the president just hours after US President Barack Obama’s visit in
Gunmen sprayed the car of MP Abdulahi Hussein Mohamud with gunfire as he travelled through a southern district of the capital Mogadishu earlier Saturday, killing him, his two guards and the driver.
The Kenyan Ambassador to Somalia, Lucas Tumbo survived the incident which left two Kenyans injured but are in stable condition according to Foreign Affairs Office in Nairobi.
President Hassan Sheik Mohamud said he was “devastated” at the attack, the latest in a string of murders of Somalia’s lawmakers.
“The lawmaker was martyred while serving the nation, but such killings will not deter us from going forward,” President Mohamud told reporters.
The Shabaab said in a statement that their “mujahedeen fighters targeted and killed a member of the parliament and his guards”, adding that they “will continue targeting” lawmakers.
AFP