Government Official assassinated in Mogadishu

GOOBJOOG NEWS/MOGADISHU: Safia Abukar Karani, the Director of Administration and Finance of the Somali Government’s Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs was assassinated in Mogadishu last night.

Armed men gunned down Safia on Wednesday night at a security checkpoint on a road leading to the Villa Somalia. The assailants fled the scene immediately after the shooting.

So far, no one has taken responsibility for the killing of the government official.

Safia’s husband, Muhyudin Mohamed, a former Deputy Minister of Defense, was also killed in 2016 in a suicide bomb attack.

The assassination of government officials has escalated in recent weeks in Somalia, with Al-Shabaab taking advantage of the country’s tumultuous election.