Mogadishu blast kills 3 as top UN aid official visits

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Source: Reuters


MOGADISHU, May 12 (Reuters) - An explosion near the U.N. compound in Mogadishu killed three people on Saturday, shortly after the United Nations' top aid official arrived to tour the shattered capital.

A security source said a senior intelligence official was killed when gunmen detonated an explosive device planted in his car shortly after U.N. emergency relief coordinator John Holmes landed in Mogadishu where he met President Abdullahi Yusuf.

The source said the attack, the latest targeting senior officials in Mogadishu, was unrelated to Holmes' visit.

"Ibrahim Mohamed Ahmed, a senior intelligence officer who was in charge of the airport died along with two others," the security source told Reuters.

"He had many enemies because of his work. We can't point a finger now,

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