Thu 01 August 2019:
Mayor Osman was being treated in Qatar after last month’s suicide attack inside his office in Somalia’s capital.
The mayor of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu has died of wounds sustained in a suicide attack inside his office last month. Mayor Abdirahman Abdi Omar Osman died on Thursday while doctors were treating his wounds at a hospital in Qatar’s capital Doha where he was brought to after the attack, a spokesperson for Somalia’s presidency said.
Six people were killed and Osman, also referred to as Engineer Yarisow, was wounded in the July 24 attack. The Horn of Africa country’s information minister, Mohamed Abdi Hayir, said after the attack that the city’s district commissioners were among the dead.
The attack happened just hours after United Nations special envoy James Swan visited the mayor’s office. Osman and several others badly injured in the attack were airlifted to Qatar for treatment.
Al-Shabab, the al-Qaeda-linked armed group fighting to overthrow Somalia’s UN-backed government, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying Swan was their target.
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