Mogadishu Somali technician working for the
state run radio Mogadishu and SNTV was shot in Shibis, one of Mogadishu
districts early morning on Saturday according to relatives.
Eng. Ahmed Sharif Hussein, a long time radio technician was
shot by three men armed with pistols in front of his home in Shibis. He was
shot four times at the chest, heart and stomach by a time when he departed his residence
to his work place.
Sharif’s injuries were taken to Kaysaney hospital where
unfortunately he has died a few minutes later
Radio Mogadishu’s director Abdirahim Isse Addow
said
that the men who shot the radio technician disgusted as school students and
soon escaped from the crime scene.
He was well-known
official in the Somali ministry information. The deceased previously worked
with Hornafrik, Radio Bandair and other different media platforms in the world.
This assassination coincided half an hour later after Somali military court
executed death penalty against nvicted of the killing against
radio journalist late Hassan Yusuf Absuge who was assassinated on September
2012 in Mogadishu’s Yashiid district.
Somali Media Freedom Defender condemning the killing of
late Sharif and sent condolence to all grieved family and relatives of Ahmed Sharif
Hussein.
Somali all exiled journalists are kindly calling Somali
Federal government to take investigation and bring perpetrators to justice
soon.
Source:- Somali Media Freedom Defender
