(SomaliNet) Unidentified gunmen have shot dead one of the district commissioners in the Somalia capital Mogadishu on Wednesday night as violence escalates over the past few days. The Deputy mayor of Mogadishu city Ibrahim Shaweye confirmed the death of Mohyidin Hassan Haji, the former district commissioner of Yaqshid neighborhood in Mogadishu this evening. Mr. Hassan Haji was shot dead by unknown militiamen as he was entering his house in north of the capital. No one has claimed the responsibility of the latest killing. Mogadishu’s deputy mayor expressed his sorrow over the death of Hassan Haji who he said was innocent. “We still do not know what motivated this killing but we are continuing investigations over the case and we will pursue those who were behind the assassination,” Shaweye said.
He was the first district commissioner killed in the coastal city of Mogadishu since the interim government backed by Ethiopian forces had taken control of the Somalia capital and ousted the Islamic Courts on late December last year. Government officials, forces and theirs positions are target for the hit and run attacks by the insurgents that are supporters of the toppled Islamic Courts Union whose top leaders are still at large in southern tip of Somalia.