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Somalia: Politician killed in apparent suicide bombing
[DW] Vocal government critic Amina Mohammed is reported to have been killed in a kaboom in the Somali city of Beledweyne. Hours earlier, security forces battled armed attackers near Mogadishu's airport.A young female politician was killed by a jacket wallah on Wednesday in the city of Beledweyne, around 300 kilometers (186 miles) north of Mogadishu, witnesses and relatives said. Amina Mohammed, a vocal critic of the government known for her fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... speeches, was killed as she approached a building housing leaders of Somalia's Hirshabele state. "I heard a huge blast, I went to the scene which is just at the entrance of the state house," local elder, Aden Farah, told the Rooters news agency by telephone. "May God rest her soul." Two suicide bombers were behind the blast, which killed at least 10, among them other politicians and security officials, the local police spokesperson Hassan Dhi'isow told German news agency DPA. Deutsche Welle was unable to independently verify the number of fatalities. It comes just hours after Somali security services battled with armed attackers near Mogadishu's international airport. Mohammed was running to be reelected in the next Somali elections and was reportedly in the city to defend her seat. No group has grabbed credit for the attack. Related: Beledweyne: 2022-03-10 Elite Gorgor soldiers killed in central Somalia fighting Beledweyne: 2022-02-23 How Al-Shabaab spends millions of dollars on purchasing weapons Beledweyne: 2022-02-20 Suicide bomber kills more than 10 at tea shop in Somalia Posted by: trailing wife 2022-03-24 |
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