{"id":439579,"date":"2011-06-11T11:38:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T11:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/11\/ministers-niece-kills-him-in-suicide-attack\/"},"modified":"2011-06-11T11:38:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T11:38:47","slug":"ministers-niece-kills-him-in-suicide-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/11\/ministers-niece-kills-him-in-suicide-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister&#8217;s Niece Kills Him in Suicide Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"23.0764097431\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/rfi-logo-en.jpg\" alt=\"Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" title=\"Visit Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>11 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Somalia&#8217;s Interior Minister Abdishakur Sheikh Hassan died in a suicide attack at his home on Friday allegedly carried out by his niece.<\/p>\n<p>Security forces confirmed that a young woman who had been staying at the minister&#8217;s home for the past three days was behind the attack.<\/p>\n<p>A number of other people were also wounded in the explosion which took place as the minister hosted a meeting with other colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>The suicide attack is the third in the capital Mogadishu in less than two weeks claimed by Somalia&#8217;s Islamist Shebab rebels who are fighting the Western-backed government for control of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Shebab are currently facing an unprecedented offensive from the government backed by the African Union&#8217;s peacekeeping mission in Mogadishu (Amisom).<\/p>\n<p>In a separate incident, two people were killed and four injured in the capital on Friday when supporters of Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, who is facing dismissal from the government, clashed with security personnel for the second consecutive day.<\/p>\n<p>The casualties occurred when hundreds of civilians came out to protest the demand by President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed for the prime minister to resign within 30 days.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\/20110611-somali-interior-minister-killed-suicide-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read or Listen to this story on the RFI website<\/a><\/strong><\/em>  <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Originally posted here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106110022.html\" title=\"Minister's Niece Kills Him in Suicide Attack\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minister&#8217;s Niece Kills Him in Suicide Attack<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 11 June 2011 Somalia&#8217;s Interior Minister Abdishakur Sheikh Hassan died in a suicide attack at his home on Friday allegedly carried out by his niece. 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