By Abdalle Ahmed
Mogadishu (RBC) A radio technician working for the state run radio Mogadishu was shot and killed in Mogadishu’s Shibis neighborhood early morning on Saturday, eyewitnesses and relatives said.
Ahmed Sharif Hussein, a long time radio technician was shot by three men armed with pistols in front of his home in Shibis early morning, eyewitnesses said. He was shot four times at the chest, heart and stomach.
Sharif’s injuries was rushed to Kaysaney hospital but unfortunately he died at the hospital.
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.
The assassination occurred half an hour later after Somali military court executed death penalty against a man who was convicted of the killing against radio journalist late Hassan Yusuf Absuge who was assassinated on September 2012 in Mogadishu’s Yaaqshiid neighborhood.
The man convicted by the military court who was identified Adam Sheikh Abdi Hussein was a member of Al Shabab and was arrested last year.
RBC Radio