Somali ex-minister injured in bomb attack
Friday, 29 June 2007
MOGADISHU, June 28 (AFP): A Somali parliamentarian and former defence minister was injured Wednesday by a roadside bomb explosion which killed his driver, the most recent in a spate of attacks in the lawless capital Mogadishu, witnesses said.
Barre Adan Shire was the latest lawmaker to be targeted in the capital, where violence has escalated since Somali government soldiers, backed by Ethiopian troops, toppled an Islamist movement in January.
Barre Adan Shire was the latest lawmaker to be targeted in the capital, where violence has escalated since Somali government soldiers, backed by Ethiopian troops, toppled an Islamist movement in January.