Puntland Information Minister assassinated
Date 2009/8/9 15:21:57 | Topic: Afran
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Thu, 06 Aug 2009
The Information Minister of the semi-autonomous administration of Puntland has been killed by six unidentified gunmen in Galka'yo town in the Mudug region of Somalia.
Information Minister Warsame Abdi Shirwa'a, known as Sefta Bananka, was killed as he came out of a restaurant in the town in central Somalia, a Press TV correspondent reported on Wednesday.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the assassination.
Puntland, home to one-third of Somalia's population, was declared an autonomous region in 1998.
Meanwhile, insurgents have carried out dozens of attacks in Mogadishu in the past 12 hours.
More than 10 civilians were killed and some 40 others injured in Mogadishu and the Ceel-Qalaw district on Wednesday.
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