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Somalia: Two prominent media managers killed in Mogadishu

Sat. August 11, 2007 07:26 pm.- By Mohamed Abdi Farah. - Send this news article

 

One of the owners of HornAfrik Media, a local independent Radio and TV station based in Mogadishu has been killed and two other journalists of the station were wounded when a bomb exploded on their car on Saturday - amid growing threat on the local journalists over the current events.

 

Ali Iman Sharmarke, in his 40s died while Sahal of Reuters was wounded in a roadside bomb explosion that ripped off their car around 2:30pm as they were returning from the funeral of Mahad Ahmed Elmi who was earlier this morning killed in near Horn Afrik headquarter.

 

Falastiin Ahmed, the wife of one of HornAfrik owners, Ahmed Abdisalan was also wounded.

 

One of the journalists that was following the convoy confirmed Somalinet the death of Ali Sharmarke who was also the general director of Horn Afrik Radio and TV in Mogadishu.

 

Meanwhile, The head of the Capital Voice radio FM belonging to the independent HornAfrik Media was shot dead in the Somalia capital Mogadishu on Saturday.

 

Mahad Ahmed Elmi in his 30s was gunned down by two men armed with pistols around 7:40am local time as he was on his way to the station early this morning.

 

Horn Afrik went off air after the news of the death arrived.

 

His death shocked all the local journalists in Somalia. One of the armed men picked up a pistol and shot two bullets on his head and few minutes after Mahad died before reaching to the hospital.

 

Also, unknown gunmen seriously wounded a Somali journalist in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, last night. Abdihakim Omar Jimale, was attacked at his home in Yaqshid neighborhood, north of the capital.

 

It is not yet clear who were behind the latest acts of killings and wounding the journalists and no group has claimed the responsibility.

 

Today was black day for all local journalists in Somalia after they lost two key press officers.