{{Somalia’s most senior religious preachers has been in killed in Puntland.}}<\/p>\n
Sheikh Abdulkadir Nur Farah, who is also known as Sheikh Abdulkadir Ga\u2019amey, was Friday gunned down inside a mosque in Garowe town, the capital of the semiautonomous state of Puntland.<\/p>\n
Garowe is some 1,000 km north of the Somali capital of Mogadishu.<\/p>\n
Witnesses said Sheikh Farah was in the middle of afternoon prayers at Beder Mosque when he was attacked by a young man wielding a pistol.<\/p>\n
He was shot several times and died while being transferred to a hospital.<\/p>\n
Puntland President Abdurahman Mohamed Farole, confirmed the Sheikh\u2019s death and said that an outraged crowd had captured the gunman.<\/p>\n
“He was a great sheikh who preached the true Islamic faith,” President Farole said.<\/p>\n
“His only crime was that he was very critical of the methods of Al-Shabaab and Al-Qaeda,\u201d he said, adding that the cleric would get a state funeral.<\/p>\n
The President named the arrested suspect as Abdurahman Hussein Jama Bile.<\/p>\n
Puntland security officials confirmed that a suspect had been detained and investigations were underway.<\/p>\n
Officers also confirmed that the gunman also wounded three people while trying to escape from pursuers.<\/p>\n
One of the injured was in a critical state.<\/p>\n
Puntland leaders that Al-Shabaab militants who have been facing military pressure from African Union peacekeepers have been moving into their territory, leading to increased security problems in Puntland.<\/p>\n
In January, several countries including Britain, Ireland and the US, issued travel advisories against Somaliland, a self-declared republic in north-western Somalia, citing increased terrorist threats.<\/p>\n
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