“Everyone in the vehicle including the governor and his driver died, there was smoke and fire all everywhere.”
The attacker rammed a scooter taxi into a car carrying Ahmed Muse Nur, the governor of the north-central Mudug province, and his security detail before detonating an explosive device, official Muse Ahmed told AFP.
Muse Ahmed confirmed the toll of four and added: “There are other casualties but the details are still being investigated.” Al-Shabaab, an Islamist militant group waging a deadly insurgency in Somalia, claimed responsibility for that attack as well. Galkayo lies around 600 kilometres north of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, straddling the border of two self-proclaimed semi-autonomous states — Puntland and Galmutug, which includes Mudug.
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