Somalia: An Electoral Delegate Shot Dead in Mogadishu

Abdirizak Mohamud Tuuryare/AMA
Car bomb in Mogadishu (file photo)
15 October 2022
Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)

Assailants with pistols killed one of the clan delegates who elected members of the Somali Parliament in the Warta-Nabada district within Mogadishu.

Abdi Araaye Moalim was shot several times in the upper part of the body by the gunmen, thought to be Al-Shabaab members early on Saturday morning.

The late Araaye voted MP in the Galmudug constituency at the beginning of this year. Al-Shabaab group claimed his killing.

The security forces of the Somali government reached the crime scene but failed to arrest the killers, who immediately escaped on foot before their arrival.

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