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Car kaboom wounds Somali intel officer
 MOGADISHU -- Somalia intelligence officer has been seriously wounded after bomb explosives fitted into his luxury car, exploded in Mogadishu, police and witnesses said.A witness told Shabelle Media in Mogadishu that the explosion happened on Sunday near Shenimo Africa area in Hamarweyne district, adding that police had cordoned off the scene. The injured NISA officer was identified as Abdiaziz Abdulkadir who was rushed to local hospitals in Mogadishu for medical treatment, according sources who spoke to Shabelle Media. Meanwhile, Somalia’s regional Banadir administration spokesman, Abdifatah Omar Halane accused Al Shabab militants of being behind the explosion in which targeted an intelligence officer in Mogadishu. No group has so far claimed responsibility for Sunday’s attack but Al Shabab carried out similar suicide attacks against foreign nationals and Somalia soldiers along with AMISOM forces in the country. Posted by: Steve White 2015-07-06 |
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