Parliamentarian Isaak Mohammed Rinoco was killed when the bomb stuck to his vehicle went
kaboom!in Hamar Weyne district on Monday. Several passersby were also hurt in the fatal blast.
No group has yet grabbed credit.
The blast comes as the government is holding the second day of a security conference aimed at tackling continued assaults by l-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
fighters'>al-Shaboobs.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud called the killing of politician a "cowardly attack" which would not derail peace efforts.
Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed also said those behind the "cowardly" attack would be brought to justice