Mogadishu (RBC) Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a female freelance journalist on Sunday evening at Suuq Bacaad area in Mogadishu, RBC Radio reports.
Rahma Abdulkadir, a freelance journalist working with local media in central Somalia was heading to her home at Suuq Bacaad market of Yaaqshiid neighborhood shortly after two armed men shot her at the head, a colleague journalist Munira Ahmed told local media.
The assassins were reportedly fled from the crime scene as there were no police officers reached there for more than one hour. There are no comments from the security officials yet.
Late Rahma Abdulkadir was working as freelance journalist since 2010. She has returned from the central region of Galgadud few weeks ago where she was working recently.
She has to be the third journalist killed in Somalia so far this year. Last year 2012 was recorded as one of the deadliest years for journalists in Somalia taking the lives of 18 journalists.
RBC Radio
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