The ROP strikes again.

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The president of Somalia’s Olympic committee and the head of the national football federation were killed in a bomb blast Wednesday that the IOC called an “act of barbarism.”

FIFA President Sepp Blatter said he knew both men personally and they would be “sorely missed.”

British Prime Minister David Cameron said his country would “stand with” Somalia’s Olympic team at this year’s London Games in memory of their loss.

Somali Olympic Committee head Aden Yabarow Wiish and Somali Football Federation chief Said Mohamed Nur were among at least 10 people killed in the explosion at the newly reopened national theater in Mogadishu during a ceremony also attended by top government officials.

The government said a female suicide bomber carried out the attack, but Islamist group al-Shabab, using its official Twitter feed to claim responsibility, said explosives had been planted in the theater before the event.

The bomb went off as Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali was standing at a podium to deliver a speech. The prime minister was unharmed, said government spokesman Abdirahman Omar Osman.