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Africa News of Monday, 30 March 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Somali governor, ex-police commissioner injured in bomb blast

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At least two Somali government officials, including a governor, were left seriously injured after a suicide bomber attacked them in the Somali region of Puntland.

According to the BBC, the governor of Nugal province, Abdisalan Hassan Hirsi, and a former regional police commissioner, Farah Galangole, were attacked by a man wearing a suicide vest who approached their car in the Puntland capital of Garowe.

The two men are receiving treatment in hospital.

Witnesses said the attacker ran at the vehicle in which he was travelling before detonating his explosive vest.

“The governor and the former police commander were wounded seriously in the blast, the police sealed off the area after the blast”, one witness, Adan Suleyman, said.

The al-Shabab Islamist group has claimed responsibility for the attack, which is a comparatively rare occurrence in Garowe.

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