Mogadishu (Alshahid) — The deputy commander of the African Union Mission in Somalia known as AMISOM and eight other peace keepers have been killed in two suicide attacks in their main base in Mogadishu, officials said on Thursday.
Ugandan army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Felix Kulayigye said the AMISOM deputy commander Major General Juvenal Niyonguruza died in the attack and the force commander, General Nathan Mugisha, was slightly wounded and is being treated in Mogadishu.
Major General Juvenal Niyonguruza, a Burundian was also the commander of the Burundian troops in Mogadishu.
Fifteen other soldiers have also been injured when two vehicles with UN logos entered in Halane, the compound of the AU peacekeepers in the capital.
Somali government spokesman Abdulkadir Walayo condemned the attack, which he said was carried out by criminals using previously, robbed UN cars.
Today’s attack comes two days after the killing of Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a top regional Al-Qaeda leader targeted by US forces on Monday.
Al-Shabaab which claimed the responsibility of the attack vowed avenge from the Westerners and the United States.
