location: Lanta Hawada
notes: Presidential Palace at Huruse Hotel in Laanta Hawada neighbourhood of Bosaso in the afternoon of 20/12. The slain administrator was from the Majeerteen/Omar Mohamud sub clan. The motive for the killing is yet to be established. Security forces were dispatched to the scene of the attack to conduct investigations and to increase security patrols in the major junctions and locations in Bosaso. The perpetrators escaped.
target_text: location: Lanta Hawada, fatalities: 1