Bodyguards for Somalia’s auditor general shot dead the country’s youngest government minister and former refugee, Abbas Abdullahi, near the presidential palace on Wednesday evening, police said.
Capt. Mohamed Hussein said bodyguards escorting Nur Farah opened fire on a car carrying Mr. Abdullahi, the public works and reconstruction minister, near a checkpoint close to the palace.
It is not immediately clear what prompted the shooting.
Security concerns are high in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, as the al-Shabab extremist group continues to target the palace, military facilities and hotels with suicide car bombings and other attacks.
The car carrying the minister approached and trailed the car carrying the auditor general, promoting his bodyguards to open fire, Hussein said. The minister’s bodyguards fired back.
Another minister who was in the car with the deceased minister survived, Hussein said.
Somalia’s new cabinet was sworn in in late March after President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed was elected in February.
The minister who was killed, a former refugee who spent large parts of his life at a camp in Kenya, had been the youngest member of Somalia’s new cabinet.
(AP)
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