MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The death toll from two bombings that killed a parliamentary election candidate in central Somalia on Wednesday has risen to 48, the President of Hirshabelle state said on Thursday.
Amina Mohamed, a vocal critic of the government, was killed by a suicide bomber in the city of Beledweyne, around 300 km (185 miles) north of Mogadishu, witnesses and relatives said.
(Reporting by Abdi Sheikh; writing by Hereward Holland; Editing by Alex Richardson)
