Somalis across the world have expressed their shock and sorrow at the death of the country’s youngest Cabinet member.

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Abass Abdullahi Sheikh Siraji was killed when the security team of the country’s auditor general, Nur Farah, fired at the car he was travelling in.

Farah says that his guards thought the vehicle was transporting a suicide bomber.

Somali President Mohammed Abdullah Farmaajo has cut short a visit to Ethiopia to attend Siraji’s funeral.

Siraji, 31,  grew up in the Dadaab refugee camp in neighbouring Kenya.

He became Somalia’s youngest MP last November and Minister of Public Works and Reconstruction last February.

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