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Last Updated: Jun 14, 2010 - 8:03:37 PM
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Somalia: Gunmen kill Puntland’s Chief Justice, lawmaker


Unknown assailants have gunned down Sheikh Mohamed Abdi Aware, the head of Puntlad’s 1st Law court in the commercial port city of Bossasso.
 
According to eyewitness, masked men opened fire on Sheikh Aware shortly after leaving a mosque in the town.
 
Security forces have launched crackdown on the assailants who are said to have fled the area shortly after committing the heinous act.
 
The killing of the judge comes days after he sentenced to jail terms, four people affiliated with Somali hardline insurgent group Al-Shabaab.
 
Meanwhile, a Puntland lawmaker called Ibrahim Elmi Warsame was gunned down by unknown gunman armed with pistol in Garowe town, the administrative capital of Puntalnd.
 
Eyewitnesses say the armed man attacked the MP when he was heading to his house in the centre of the town, brutally killing him in cold blood. The gunman have fled the area and security forces are on man hunt.

GAROWE ONLINE

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