A police bodyguard fatally shot President Sharmarkee in Las Anood.

Evidence

Meanwhile there was a lot of political tension in several parts of the country, and President Sharmarkee embarked on a journey to visit several areas. In the town of Las Anood one of the president’s police bodyguards fatally shot the president in cold blood. The policeman was taken to Mogadishu General Prison. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1040

Meanwhile there was a lot of political tension in several parts of the country, and President Sharmarkee embarked on a journey to visit several areas. In the town of Las Anood one of the president’s police bodyguards fatally shot the president in cold blood. The policeman was taken to Mogadishu General Prison. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1040

Categorization

• XREF: The assassination of the president by his own bodyguard is a pivotal historical fact for the reader’s narrative of Somalia’s democratic era ending.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1040