Al -Shabab militants targeted Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in a bomb attack on their motorcycle as it was traveling through the capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, the group said.
Two senior government and military officials told Roots He was safe after the Mohammed attack, and the President’s advisor Zakaraya Hussain wrote in a post on X that he was “well and well on the lines of the front.”
The soldiers and local residents who saw the attack confirmed that the President’s convoy was killed. A Roots The journalist at the scene saw the bodies of four people killed in the attack near the President’s Mahal.
“Our fighters targeted a convoy of vehicles carrying Hasan Sheikh Mohammed because he was leaving the palace and going to the airport,” Al Shabab said in a statement posted on the al-Qaeda-Linked Group Channel.
While Al Shabab regularly carried out attacks in Somalia as part of his decades long campaign to top the government in Somalia, Tuesday’s attack was the first to target Mohammed directly since 2014, during his first term in the office, when he bombed a hotel where he was speaking.
A few hours after the attack on Tuesday, the state media showed the President’s images in the Aden Yabal district of the Shabel region between Somalia, where government forces are struggling with three weeks of Al -Shabab.
