Gunmen Assassinate Somali MP
Khalif Jire Warfaa, a Somali member of parliament, was killed by gunmen armed with pistols in Mogadishu's Hamar-weyne district on Sunday evening.
Somali MP Abdulkadir Sheikh Ismail said his colleague was killed at 6:30pm (1530 GMT) local time by three masked men who shot him at the head as he was leaving the Marwaaz mosque after saying his evening prayers.
Local witnesses also confirmed the killing.
“I saw three men armed with pistols shooting the MP at close range,” Mohamed Hassan, an eyewitness told Somalia Report.
All three gunmen escaped the scene before government soldiers reached the site.
Khalif Jire Warfaa was born in Af-madow district of Lower Jubba in 1957. From 2000-2003 he served as a parliament member of Somalia's Transitional National Government (TNG). From 2004-2007 he was the deputy livestock minister of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and most recently served as an MP since 2007.
No group has claimed responsibility of the killing but the al-Shabaab insurgent group has carried out a number high profile assassinations on government officials in the past.
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