Somali Interior Minister Abdi Shakur Sheikh Hassan has been killed in a suicide attack at his home in the capital, Mogadishu. Officials say the bomber was his own teenage niece, who had joined the Islamist militant group al-Shabab.<\/p>\n
The group said it carried out the attack and said more would follow.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, two people are said to have been killed in Mogadishu during protests against a deal to extend the terms of the president and parliament.<\/p>\n
Under the deal signed in Uganda on Thursday, their mandates have been extended until June 2012 and the prime minister is to be sacked.<\/p>\n
Friday saw a second day of demonstrations in support of Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo. Witnesses said troops fired on the protesters, who had gathered outside the hotel where MPs have been meeting.<\/p>\n
The attack against Sheikh Hassan was the third suicide attack in Mogadishu in three weeks.
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His niece had visited his home several times in recent days and the guards did not carry out a security check.<\/p>\n
She walked into the home, set off the bomb, and was killed instantly.<\/p>\n
The minister died from his injuries as efforts were under way to fly him for treatment in neighbouring Kenya.<\/p>\n
In recent months al-Shabab – which has links with al-Qaeda – have lost territory as Somali government troops and African Union soldiers have been on the offensive.<\/p>\n
BBC East Africa correspondent Will Ross says that when al-Shabab has appeared to be militarily weak in the past, it has targeted high-profile government officials.<\/p>\n
The group still controls much of southern and central areas of the country.<\/p>\n
Somalia has been torn apart by constant war for more than 20 years. Its last functioning national government was toppled in 1991.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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