Explosion in Somalia kills Mogadishu official and 5 others

By SPA,

Mogadishu, Somalia : An explosion killed a Somali official, his wife and four others Saturday in the capital Saturday, witnesses and officials said.


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Hassan Illmi Abtidoon, the deputy district commissioner of Mogadishu’s Yaqshid district, was traveling in a car in the capital along with his wife, driver and three bodyguards, said Ahmed Gedi, who worked with the official.

The vehicle had just left Abtidoon’s house when a remote-controlled land mine exploded under the vehicle, Gedi said, adding that all six were killed in the blast, according to a report of the Associated Press.

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