Toll of journalists killed in Somalia suicide bombing increases to three

The toll of journalists killed in Thursday'ss suicide bombing in Mogadishu’s Shamo Hotel has risen to three. According to the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), a Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) partner organisation, freelance fixer and cameraman Abdigafar Abdulkadir Hassan, aka Yaasir Mario died Thursday evening in the Medina Hospital, to which he had been taken in a critical condition with injuries sustained in the bombing.

A Radio Shabelle reporter and an Al-Arabiya TV cameraman were the two other media fatalities.

The journalists injured in the bombing include:

- Mohamed Aweys Mudey, a reporter for Somaliweyn Radio

- Abdulkadir Omar Abdulle, a reporter for Universal TV

- Mohamed Abdi Hussein, a reporter for Hurmo Radio

- Khalid Maki Banadir, a cameraman with Universal TV

- Omar Faruk, a photographer for the Reuters news agency

The Islamist insurgents of the Al-Shabaab militia and the Hezb-al-Islam group today denied being responsible for the bombing.

 
 
Date Posted: 4 December 2009 Last Modified: 4 December 2009