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Somali minister shot dead by auditor general’s bodyguards

A police officer says bodyguards for Somalia’s auditor general have shot dead a government minister near the presidential palace.

Capt. Mohamed Hussein says bodyguards escorting Nur Farah opened fire on a car carrying Abbas Abdullahi, the public works and reconstruction minister, near a checkpoint close to the presidential palace Wednesday evening.

It is not immediately clear what prompted the shooting.

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Somalia’s new cabinet was sworn in in late March after President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed was elected in February.

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