... the personification of Somali state failure...
According to a Somali police official, two non-combatants were killed on Monday during a drive-by shooting by the Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
group in central Mogadishu. One al-Shabaab bully boy was also killed in the incident.
The gunman "was killed by police after he killed a civilian. Another civilian was killed after the car the assailants were riding in detonated," said police official Ibrahim Mohammed.
The third civilian victim died later of gunshot wounds sustained in the firing.