SOMALIA GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN WOUNDED IN MOGADISHU SUICIDE BOMBING

Sun 16 January 2022:

Somalia’s government spokesperson was injured in a suspected suicide bomber strike in the capital, according to state-run media.

On Sunday, a photographer at the blast site reported seeing body parts on the ground outside the home of Mohamed Ibrahim Moalimuu, who was taken to the hospital.

State-run According to the Somali National News Agency, the explosion at a Mogadishu road junction was caused by a suicide bomber.

BREAKING: Loud explosion heard in #Mogadishu, #Somalia. Initial reports say that Mohamed Moalimuu, the spokesperson of the #Somalia Govt and senior Media Adviser to the Prime Minister, is reportedly targeted, wounded. pic.twitter.com/FBgtYfFmrg

— Morad News (@MoradNews) January 16, 2022

“A suicide bomber targeted a government spokesman, who is presently being treated in hospital for his injuries,” police spokesman Abdifatah Aden told Reuters.

Nasra Bashir Ali, a state media special correspondent in the prime minister’s office, where Moalimuu is based, said on Twitter that he did not suffer life-threatening injuries in the attack, which targeted him as he was passing in his vehicle.

The perpetrators of the attack were not immediately identified.

Al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda-linked armed group trying to destabilize Somalia’s UN-backed government, is frequently blamed for assaults in the region.

Allies and foreign observers have raised concern about an increasing power struggle between the president and prime minister of Somalia.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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