Somali MP killed by car bomb

Blast at the entrance to heavily-fortified compound of the presidential palace has killed MP Warsame Faysal.

A Somali legislator has been killed in the capital, Mogadishu, when a bomb planted under his car exploded at the entrance to the heavily-fortified compound of the presidential palace, a senior police official said. Warsame Faysal was killed on Friday, police said. "He went to pray in a mosque inside the presidential palace. When he came back to drive the car, it exploded," Abdikadir Hussein, a senior police officer based at a checkpoint at the palace's entrance, said. Other police officers confirmed Faysal's death.