afrol News, 14 June - The Commissioner of Shibis District, Abokar Hussein Bandas, has become the sixth Somali transitional government official to be killed by gunmen in the capital Mogadishu in recent months.

Mr Banda was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in northern Mogadishu while on his way to work this morning. News reports said the commissioner was approached by two gunmen who shot him several times on the head and back.

The killing soon led to tight security in northern Mogadishu, with Somali police and Ethiopian soldiers conducting large scale investigations on the spot.

In another development, a Somali reportedly died last night when unidentified militants attacked Ethiopian military posts in northern Mogadishu. The attack resulted to a fierce fighting.

The lifeless bodies of two abducted Kenyan border guards, who had been missing for some days, were found near a village bordering Somalia and Kenya.

With the help of Ethiopian-backed troops, Islamists rulers have been flushed out of Mogadishu to give way to the transitional federal government of Abdullahi Yusuf to gain control of power. But the aftermath of the flush out has been punctuated with increasingly guerrilla-style killings, suicides attacks and bomb explosions.

By staff writer

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