4 Embgathi Officals Kidnapped in Mogadishu

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http://allafrica.com/stories/200705270035.html



Aweys Osman Yusuf
Mogadishu

Four Somali government officials based in Hamar Jajab district, south of the capital, have been abducted by unknown gunmen overnight, according to relatives.

Ahmed Sheik Mohamoud, the district commissioner, revealed to the press on Sunday that the four officials in the division were forcibly taken with gun point by unknown armed men in a small car with no plate number.


"These men were among the local administrators assigned for the district by the federal government and until now we did not hear from their captors, neither do we know why they have been kidnapped," he said.

He stressed the report has been submitted to the mayor, Mohammed Dheere, who promised restoring peace and security in the gun-infested city, Mogadishu.

This is the first time that unidentified gun men took government officials hostage. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the seizure of these officials.

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Liberation continues, the traitors numbers are diminishing either by assasination or adbduction, the remainers are in constant fear

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It appears Somali insurgents are becoming lethal.

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let's wait for The video of the beheading of the murtadiinta

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Unidentified gunmen dressed in military fatigues opened fire on a government official's convoy as the vehicles passed through a major intersection Sunday evening, witnesses said.

Abdullahi Mohamed Robleh, commissioner of Mogadishu's Kaaraan district, was not with the armed vehicle convoy when it came under fire, his aides said.

Robleh's security guards returned fire, forcing the attackers to flee. At least two civilians wounded in the minutes-long gunfight were being treated at local hospitals, according to medical sources.

None of the bodyguards were hurt in the incident, Robleh told Garowe Online by telephone interview. He described the attackers as thugs bent on creating havoc in the capital as the Somali transitional government tries to restore order.

Earlier Sunday, two Somali soldiers were gunned down in broad daylight as they waited for a cab, according to eyewitness accounts. The two men who killed the soldiers managed escape moments before more troops arrived in the area.

The reinforcement troops took away the dead soldiers' bodies as well as an unconfirmed number of civilians who were caught in the immediate vicinity of the shooting.

Insurgents, suspected to be members of an ousted Islamist group, have carried out a series of guerrilla attacks, which include assassinations and bombings, against the Somali government and its Ethiopian and African Union allies.