MOGADISHU -- The Deputy of Governor of Lower Shabelle region of southern Somalia Ahmed Omar Mudan has been wounded in a bomb blast inside his car in Mogadishu on Monday, Garowe Online reports.Witnesses reported that they have seen plumes of black some on the hearty road of Maka Al Mukarama which is frequently used by the vehicles and convoys carrying Somalia Federal Government officials to the heavily fortified presidential compound.
Lower Shabelle region governor Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur (Siidii) told reporters in Mogadishu that Mudane's leg has been severed in a surgical treatment.
"The deputy governor is being treated at Madina hospital, he sustains heavy injuries to his lower body," said Siidii adding that the explosion was caused by a bomb placed beneath his seat.
Photographic images taken from the scene of the blast show a stain of blood on the wreckage of the bomb attack.