Mogadishu – Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked al Shabaab claimed responsibility for shooting dead a lawmaker and wounding another on Thursday, the latest in a surge of attacks in Mogadishu during Islam’s holy month of Ramadan.
“This was a targeted assassination. We also wounded another MP and two body guards,” Shabaab spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab told AFP.
A witness said MP Ahmed Mohamud Hayd, a former minister and a senior army commander, was killed in the capital’s port district, one of the most heavily policed areas in the heart of the city.
“We will continue to hunt other MPs if they do not leave the apostate organisation,” Abu Musab added.
Gunmen in a car opened fire on the lawmakers as they left a hotel, spraying bullets at the small group of people…
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