Reuters, Mogadishu :
A Somali lawmaker was killed in Mogadishu on Monday when al Shabaab gunmen sprayed his car with bullets, police and the militants said, the sixth such attack since the start of 2014.
The al Qaeda-affiliated Islamist militants were pushed out of the capital by African peacekeeping forces in 2011 but have waged a series of gun and grenade attacks to try to overthrow the government and impose its strict version of sharia law.
Five lawmakers were killed last year by al Shabaab, which seeks to topple the Western-backed Mogadishu government and impose its own strict version of Islamic law.
The group has claimed responsibility for all the attacks.
“We killed (the) lawmaker. We shall continue killing them one by one,” Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab’s military spokesman, told Reuters.
Police officer Captain Osman Ali said lawmaker Abdullahi Qayad Bare was killed when militants fired on his car and then sped off.
A Somali lawmaker was killed in Mogadishu on Monday when al Shabaab gunmen sprayed his car with bullets, police and the militants said, the sixth such attack since the start of 2014.
The al Qaeda-affiliated Islamist militants were pushed out of the capital by African peacekeeping forces in 2011 but have waged a series of gun and grenade attacks to try to overthrow the government and impose its strict version of sharia law.
Five lawmakers were killed last year by al Shabaab, which seeks to topple the Western-backed Mogadishu government and impose its own strict version of Islamic law.
The group has claimed responsibility for all the attacks.
“We killed (the) lawmaker. We shall continue killing them one by one,” Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab’s military spokesman, told Reuters.
Police officer Captain Osman Ali said lawmaker Abdullahi Qayad Bare was killed when militants fired on his car and then sped off.
