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the personification of Somali state failure...snuffies have rubbed out a provincial governor and his brother in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
Mohammed Dahir Ali Elmi, the governor of Galgadud region in central Somalia, and his brother were bumped off in Mogadishu’s Yaaqshid district Friday night, witnesses said.
The governor was visiting relatives when gunnies who trailed him opened fire. Witnesses said the gunnies fled before security forces arrived.
"Our mujahedeen unit carried [out] an operation to kill the governor," al-Shabaab said in a statement posted on a website affiliated with the group.
The incident occurred less than three hours after an exploding car blew up in Makka al-Mukarama street in the center of the capital, killing at least three civilians.