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Swedish politician for the left party shot in Somali capital Mogadishu - What was she doing there?
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Swedish political party member of the Left Party leadership in
Stockholm, Ann-Margarethe Livh, was today reportedly shot in the chest
in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
A youth politician from the Stockholm suburb of Husby which was
characterise by violence recently what a 69 years man was shot dead by
the police, who was her interpreter, was shot dead, Swedish media
sources report on Wednesday.
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The attack on Livh also killed two Somalis as Livh is no in the hands of the African Union field hospital in the city.
The assailants, who came in a car and tried to block the road, began
shelling the car Livh travelling in, the reports hold. They are said to
have killed the driver and a security guard.
She received gunshot injury, but she is said to have spoken to the
ambassador, Camilla Åkesson Lindblom according to the Swedish foreign
ministry which is said to have confirmed by the news report.
According to reports, Livh was in Mogadishu to visit a university. Her
interpreter, a man living in Husby, was killed. The man was there to
start a democracy movement and was killed in an attack, probably by the
militia group Al-Shabaab, according to the news reports.
Swedish Foreign Ministry could not provide any information on the
matter but said of a kidnapping attempt, according to Swedish
television.
Ann-Margarethe Livh is said to have already left Mogadishu, without
life-threatening injuries, for medical transport on to Nairobi.
Somali Capital - Moghadisu
She arrived Mogadishu a few days ago to lecture at universities and
must have travelled about only with local police and an interpreter,
said Swedish television. Reports hold that she had a very weak security
support as such a personality in Somalia must have a very poor
contingents made of real armed guards.
The Left Party's office in Stockholm would not comment on the incident but refer to the Swedish foreign office.
Somalia is a country with no government and has been characterised by
persistent war for decades that had turned the country into a dissolute
wasteland. Various attempts have been made to try and revive the
country and bring it back to modernity but it keeps on pushing itself
into stone age.
Its capital Mogadishu while appear to be safer today than it was a few
years ago, it is still a very uncertain place because of terrorist
threats directed against foreigners and Somalis, but also because of
crime in general, various experts attest to such views.
by Scancomark.com Team