Mogadishu, 18 June-(ANA)-Somalia's Interior Minister Omar Hashi Aden has been killed in a suicide bomb attack north of the the capital Mogadishu, witnesses and officials say.
Somali ambassadors to some other nations were also reportedly killed in the blast at a hotel in Beledweyne.
It was not immediately clear who carried out the attack but it came as pro-government forces continued to fight Islamist guerrillas.
On Wednesday, at least 10 people died in an attack in a Mogadishu mosque. (ANA)
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