Somalia: Security Ministry displays alleged killers in Mogadishu

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MOGADISHU, Somalia Feb 19, 2015 (Garowe Online)-Federal Government of Somalia’s Ministry for National Security put two alleged killers of airport workers and police officer on display in Mogadishu, Garowe Online reports.

At a rare event showcasing the capture of perpetrators in extremely volatile Mogadishu, National Security Ministry spokesman, Mohamed Yusuf Osman said that the two men executed a plot that left four Mogadishu airport staff members dead last Monday.

Osman told the media that two assailants managed to escape, one killed was in operation and the two captured assailants attempted to change plate armours of the car.

On Monday, gunmen killed four airport workers in drive-by shooting at Mogadishu’s KM4 junction.

Mogadishu has been a scene for planned assassinations, military style ambushes and suicide bombings since the removal of Al Shabaab militants in early 2011. 

GAROWE ONLINE 

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