{{Somali authorities are looking for gunmen armed with pistols that gunned down the country’s deputy Attorney General, Ahmed Malim Sheikh Nur.}}<\/p>\n
Sheikh Nur is the most senior official killed in the capital since a new government took office last year.<\/p>\n
The killing in the Yakshid district of north Mogadishu was confirmed by Mohamed Hassan, the country’s deputy prosecutor.<\/p>\n
“The deceased was attacked soon after he left Ramadan Mosque,” said Mr Hassan, who said that the killers then fled the scene.<\/p>\n
“He died on the spot while a companion was wounded.”<\/p>\n
Abdullahi Mohamed Musse, the country’s Attorney General, told the media Friday that the deceased was his college-mate, having graduated together from the Somali National University in 1980.<\/p>\n
Eyewitnesses said the killing was carried out by three men.<\/p>\n
Security officials have been combing the scene of the crime for clues as to the perpetrators.<\/p>\n
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