Sheikh Isma’il Sheikh Hussein, the director of Puntland’s ministry of religious and justice affairs died after his vehicle targeted with roadside bomb attack the neighborhood of Israa just north of Galka’yo.“At once, we heard a very heavy blast as smoke and flames skyrocketed just immdiately after the explosion” Mohammed Ali, a shopkeeper in Galka’yo told All Headline News by phone.
At least two other civilians were killed in the attack against while two others were badly injured, according to the eyewitness.
Ali added that the wounded people rushed to medical facilities the town. A large number of Puntland security forces sealed off all streets near the explosion area and began search operations against the perpatrators of the deadly attack.
It is still not known if the people detained during the operations are connected with the terrorist attack.
In past few months Galka’yo has become a scene of planned assassinations and roadside bomb attacks against the officials of Puntland, prominent Somali elders and peace campaigners.
In Jan. 3, Ahmed Ali Salad, the governor of Somalia's Mudug region under the semi-autonomous state of Puntland, narrowly escaped a bomb blast planted beside a road in Galka'yo.
On Nov. 30, Abdullahi Salah Shirwa', Puntland's high court attorney, was killed at the center of the port town of Bosaso, about 1,500 kilometers north of Somalia's capital Mogadishu.
Also, in mid October, Abdulhakem Ahmed Guled, former information minister of Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland, was injured by a roadside bomb, also in Bosaso, about 1500 kilometers north of Mogadishu.
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