On 3 December 2009 , Qamar , along with Minister of Education Ahmed Abdulahi Waayeel and Minister of Higher Education Ibrahim Hassan Addow , was killed in a suicide bombing at the Hotel Shamo in Mogadishu . They had been attending a Benadir University graduation ceremony , while the male bomber had passed through security dressed as a woman in an Islamic veil . The bombing was subsequently called a " national disaster " by President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed
suicide bombing at the Hotel Shamo
2009 Hotel Shamo bombing
Qamar Aden Ali