The Organization for Islamic Cooperation has strongly condemned an attack on the presidential palace in the Somali capital, according to a statement released Sunday.
Secretary General Dr. Lyad Madani said that the attack targeting the leader of the country was unjustifiable, according to the OIC website.
Madani offered his condolonces to the families of the victims and the public of Somalia.
Two car bomb blasts rocked the presidential palace and a prison in Mogadishu on February 21, and several officials were gunned down as they left a mosque following the bombings.
Mahmoud Harsi, director of Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed's office, and Nour Sharbo, former deputy head of Somali intelligence, were among those killed.
Somalia has remained in the grip of on-off political violence since the outbreak of a civil war in 1991.
The country, however, appeared to have stabilized recently with the installation of a new government and the intervention of African Union troops tasked with countering a Al-Shabaab insurgency.
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