(SomaliNet) Deputy Mayor of the Somalia capital Mogadishu Ibrahim Omar Sebriye Shaweye has died in Nairobi, Kenya after he had been in the hospital for an injury of explosion, government official said on Friday. He was in his 40s. Abdulahi Muhyidin Odka, the acting spokesman for the Somali’s government confirmed to the local media that Mr. Shaweye passed away in Nairobi this afternoon. “The reports we have received from Nairobi told the government that Mogadishu’s deputy mayor has died of wounds that he had been suffering for long time,” said Odka
He has been in the hospital since he was injured by shrapnel of an explosion that was targeted on his convoy in Mogadishu last month. Two of his aides were killed in that explosion. In early March, the vehicle of Ibrahim Shaweeye, deputy mayor of Mogadishu, was blown up by a bomb allegedly hidden inside his vehicle. He sustained injuries and was flown abroad for treatment. The government blamed the action on remnants of the Islamists.