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Al-Shabaab militants kill Somalia president's nephew in ambush

Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud

MOGADISHU: Islamist Al-Shabaab gunmen ambushed and killed the nephew of Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud in the capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police and the rebels said.

Militants from the al Qaeda-linked group attacked a car carrying Liban Osman, and a lawyer named Abdikadir Mohamed, through the city and shot them both, police Major Mohamed Nur told Reuters.

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