(Sh. M. Network)-Unknown assailants in Somalia have shot to death overnight former deputy police Commissioner of Puntland...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
, a semi-autonomous state in northern Somalia, reports said.
According to Witnesses two faceless myrmidons armed with pistols have bumped off Col. Abdullahi Salah Nadalo, the victim in the vicinity of Bulshale hotel at 1st August village in Garowe town at about 7:15 pm local time on Monday evening.
"He was shot multiple times on head by anonymous attackers with pistols who escaped unscathed from the scene shortly after they carried out the coordinated shooting," said a witness who spoke with Shabelle Media by phone from Garowe town on condition of anonymity.
On July 1, 2012, the 54-year-old deceased official was sacked from the post of deputy police chief under unknown circumstances by the officials of the semi-autonomous state of Puntland in northern Somalia.
The move behind the murder and the identity of the killers are yet to be established, but he is believed to have been the driving force for the anti pirate operations of the Puntland police forces.
Dozens of Puntland security forces mounting on vehicles have reached at the crime spot in Garowe town and conducted manhunt operations, but no one was reported tossed in the slammer
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