The State Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office for Environment, Buri Mohamed Hamza, is confirmed to have been among the victims of the violent terrorist attack on Nasa Hablod hotel by AlShabaab yesterday.

Minister Buri Hamza was a Member of the Federal Parliament of Somalia since August 2012. He served as the State Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation from January to October 2014 and then the State Minister for Finance until December 2014.

Friends and colleagues of the late State Minister Buri Hamza from the Somali government have expressed shock, sadness and anger at his death.

Somalia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Investment Promotion, Abdusalam H. Omar tweeted his condolences to the fallen lawmaker.