Abdirahman Ahmed Ali Garyare Garasbaaley governor and two of his guards whose names were only identified as Bacle and Sade, died in a landmine blast on Friday planted on a road in the area.
The governor and his bodyguards were walking down the path in which the blast occurred as was confirmed to Mustaqbal by the locals and got serious injuries which they succumbed to immediately.
Garyare and many other Garasbaaley officials have in the past survived several bombings by Al-Shabaab in parts of the area even as attacks on key administrative centers have been carried out.
On January 19, 2021, a landmine blast in Garasbaaley killed Ali Mohamed, Vice President of Garasbaaley and youth affairs official Abdirashid Dubad.
Garasbaaley’s security agencies have launched an operation to investigate the explosions in the area that killed three senior government officials in the area in the last five months.
The governor of Banadir and Mogadishu Mayor offered his condolences to Abdirahman Ahmed Ali Garyare, the governor of Garasbaaley and described him as a minister who served his people well in the area.
