Gunmen shoot and kill another Somali lawmaker in Mogadishu as he leaves a mosque
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A Somali police officer says gunmen have shot and killed a Somali lawmaker in Mogadishu.
Hassan Abdullahi said two gunmen shot and killed Sheikh Aden Mader on Friday as he left a mosque. Mader, a former minister in the Somali government, is the fifth Somali parliamentarian to be killed this year.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Al-Shabab, an al-Qaida-linked group of militants, often carries out attacks against government officials and African Union troops in Somalia.
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Bombings and assassinations have increased in the Somali capital in recent months, prompting fears of a return to daily violence in a city that has enjoyed a relative period of calm since al-Shabab was pushed out of the capital in 2011.