Somali’s Deputy Attorney General Shot Dead

{{Somali authorities are looking for gunmen armed with pistols that gunned down the country’s deputy Attorney General, Ahmed Malim Sheikh Nur.}}

Sheikh Nur is the most senior official killed in the capital since a new government took office last year.

The killing in the Yakshid district of north Mogadishu was confirmed by Mohamed Hassan, the country’s deputy prosecutor.

“The deceased was attacked soon after he left Ramadan Mosque,” said Mr Hassan, who said that the killers then fled the scene.

“He died on the spot while a companion was wounded.”

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.

Eyewitnesses said the killing was carried out by three men.

Security officials have been combing the scene of the crime for clues as to the perpetrators.

{NMG}