Somalia port boss among victims of al-Shabaab attacks
Strife-torn country's death toll mounts with shooting and car-bomb blast
Mogadishu — Somalia’s al-Shabaab militants shot dead the Maltese manager of a major northern port and detonated a car bomb in the capital on Monday, killing nine people, in a day of death for the restive nation. A gunman shot Maltese national Paul Anthony Formosa at the Bossasso port, in semi-autonomous Puntland state, while he was at work for P&O Ports, a subsidiary of the Dubai-based global operator DP World. Soon afterwards, up to 11 people were killed by a powerful car-bomb blast, which rocked the busy Hamarweyne market in the capital Mogadishu, in the latest attack by the Al-Qaeda affiliate plaguing the country. Earlier, officials said nine were killed. “An armed man shot and killed Paul Anthony Formosa who was the construction project manager for DP World. He was killed inside the port and the security forces also shot the killer on the spot”, local security official, Mohamed Dahir, told AFP. A witness, Abdukadir Weheliye, said he heard several shots at the port and then saw t...
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