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Mogadishu-A witness says a Somali lawmaker has been wounded after an explosive device planted under the seat of his car exploded in Mogadishu on Saturday night. The MP, Mohamed Mursal Mohamud, known as Barrow sustained critical wounds in the blast which happened near the country’s national theatre, according to police sources.
The latest reports indicated that the driver of the legislator whose name has not yet been established lost his life in the bomb attack. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attempted assassination against the serving lawmaker, who was reported to have been admitted in a hospital.
Somali Prime Minister, HE Hassan Ali Khaire accompanied by the first deputy national assembly speaker, Abdiweli Ibrahim Mudey and ministers visited wounded MP at a hospital on Sunday. The lawmaker, Mohamed Mursal Borrow was critically injured on Saturday night after an IED fitted to his car went off near the country’s national theatre in Mogadishu.
Barrow remains in “grave” condition at Erdogan Hospital, where he is being treated by Turkish doctors who are dealing with his severe wounds sustained in the car bombing. Al-Shabaab, an Al Qaeda ally in Somalia has claimed responsibility for the attack aimed at assassinating the prominent legislator elected from Southwest state.
The attack was the latest in a string of car bombs in the capital amidst tight security measures by the security forces of the country’s Somali Federal government.