(SomaliNet) The mayor of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia Mohamed Omar Habeb ‘Mohamed Dhere’ has escaped from bomb attack onSunday afternoon, witnesses said – it is the second time that the city’s mayor survived an attempt on his life. A remote controlled roadside bomb exploded as the convoy of the mayor was passing on the road between Afgoyie and Mogadishu. The mayor’s convoy came from Baidoa city where Mohamed Dhere met with the president Abdulahi Yusuf over the consultation on who will be the new premier from Mudulod sub-clan of Hawiye clan. There is no immediate casualty on the soldiers that were keeping guard the mayor.
In May, the mayor escaped unhurt from bomb attack which occurred near his car in north of Mogadishu where the security forces killed a suspected man. The attack took place as the mayor's convoy was passing around Sisi Street in north of Mogadishu when a man on the top of a tree near the street threw a hand grenade which exploded far away from Mohamed Dheere's convoy.