(SomaliNet) Unknown gunmen have wounded the deputy mayor for finance in the Somalia capital Mogadishu on Saturday. Hassan Mohamed Qalad was injured as he was standing in front of the main seaport in Mogadishu yesterday. Witnesses told Somalinet that unidentified gunmen opened fire at him wounding on the leg. Mr. Qalaad was laid on hospital where the doctors said that his injury was not serious.
It is unclear who was behind the attack and no one has claimed responsibility. No comment yet from the transitional government on the attack that Mr. Qalaad was wounded. He is the second man in the government who was injured by unknown militia. Earlier, the cityÂ’s deputy mayor for security Ibrahim Shaweye was injured in a bomb explosion that hit one his convoys in south of the capital. |