MOGADISHU
A Somali lawmaker was killed in central Mogadishu on Monday when a bomb planted in his car went off, an eyewitness said.
"MP Isak Mohamed Rino was killed this morning after an explosive charge planted in his car by unidentified gunmen went off," eyewitnesses said. "The blast left no other casualties."
Rino was rushed to a nearby hospital in critical condition but succumbed to his injuries shortly afterward, an eyewitness said, giving no further details.
Somalia has remained in the grip of on-again, off-again violence since the outbreak of civil war in 1991.
The country had appeared to inch closer to stability with the recent installation of a new government and the intervention of African Union troops tasked with combatting the Al-Shabaab insurgency.
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