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Somali Police Detain Two Suspects Over MP’s Assassination
[RADIOSHABELLE] Somali police have said the law enforcement agencies successfully detained two men in connection with the killing of a federal politician in Mogadishu on Saturday evening.Gen. Abdullahi Hassan Barisse, a police commissioner said the police captured the car suspected to have been used for the attack. Gen. Barisse noted that the forces conducted thorough operations to hunt down the perpetrators of the attack. "The police locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! two suspects and a car which is thought to have been used to carry out the attack," he said. The commissioner called on the public to work with the security forces to enhance the security of the city. Two young men armed with pistols have assassinated a veteran MP, Osman Elmi Boqorre. The killing of MP Boqorre was claimed by al-Shabaab ...  the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...saying their fighters had executed the liquidation of the veteran politician. "Members of our Mujahidiin shot and killed the longest-serving member of the parliament of the apostate government," the statement reads in part. Late Boqorre was a former deputy speaker of parliament and oldest member of the current house of the people. He was a major in the Somali army who fought in Somalia-Æthiopia war of the 1970s. Posted by: Fred 2019-02-25 |
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