Woman state official killed, two reporters shot in Somalia

{{A woman state administrator has been killed in Somalia and two reporters shot and injured in the war-torn country.}}

The Deputy Commissioner of Somalia’s Yakshid District in north Mogadishu, Ms Rahma Dahir Siad, was killed near her home on Wednesday evening.

The journalists, Mr Mascud Abdulahi Adan, of Dalsan radio and Mr Mohamed Farah Sahal, for Goobjoog radio, were attacked on Wednesday evening in Kismayu, according the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), in south Kismayu.

NUSOJ condemned the attack.

“We condemn the attack on the journalists in the strongest terms possible and call for an urgent investigation to bring the attacker to book,” said Mohamed Ibrahim, NUSOJ secretary-general.

Ms Siad’s killing was first made public by the Mogadishu Deputy Mayor on Security Affairs, Mr Warsame Mohamed Hassan Jodah.

“Ms Rahma was attacked and killed around Sheikh Hassan Adde Mosque, near Fagah Crossroad,” said Mr Jodah.
The killers managed to flee before security officials reached the scene of crime.

Yakshid District Commissioner Mohydin Hassan Jurus told the media on Thursday that his district security forces had apprehended four suspects.

{Deputy Commissioner of Yakshid District in north Mogadishu, Somalia Rahma Dahir Siad, addressing a youth conference in the capital on May 20 2012. She was killed by gunmen on July 17, 2013}

NMG