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Unidentified armed men driving an ambulance opened gunfire at a car transporting three SNG MPs in Shaqaalaha junction area of Hodan District in the afternoon of 23/05. One MP and two bodyguards were killed while another MP was wounded in the attack. The attackers managed to escape from the scene, and the reason for the attack remains unclear yet though al Shabaab claimed the responsibility of the attack. However, the spokesman for the Internal Security Ministry in a press conference in Mogadishu on 24/05 stated that SNG forces driving an armed military vehicle was behind the assassination of the MP in Shaqaalaha area on the 23/05. The spokesman stated that the attack took place irresponsibly as the vehicle transporting the MPs refused to let the armed vehicle to overtake it, which led the military forces' vehicle to block the car of the MPs and soldiers on board opened gunfire at the car. |
