Somali minister shot dead by auditor general's bodyguards
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MOGADISHU -- A police officer says bodyguards for Somalia's auditor general have shot dead a government minister near the presidential palace.
Capt. Mohamed Hussein says bodyguards escorting Nur Farah opened fire on a car carrying Abbas Abdullahi, the public works and reconstruction minister, near a checkpoint close to the presidential palace Wednesday evening.
It is not immediately clear what prompted the shooting.
