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Somali Islamist militants shoot government official dead in Mogadishu

Al Shabaab Islamist militants shot dead a government official in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police and a spokesman for the group said.

Abdifatah Barre, the deputy district commissioner of Mogadishu's Wadajir district, was shot dead in his car.

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