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.
