Ibrahim Hassan
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.