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A journalist was injured and his wife
killed in Mogadishu , when mortars landed on his
radio station south of the city |
Mogadishu 21
December, 2009 :: During mortar exchange between
government soldiers and insurgents three mortars landed
with in minutes of each other on the building of Radio
Voice of Democracy
in north Mogadishu ’s Suqba’ad neighborhood.
Abdirahman
Yasin
Ali, the director of the Station, VOD was
injured and his wife immediately died o the spot. Abshir
Abdi Ahmed, the head of the station’s reporters told
SOFCA.
The attack has
severely damaged the station and sent the radio off air.
A neighbor was also
killed in the attack and three others injured.
“we strongly condemn
untargeted shells on innocent civilians, including
journalists and call for the warring sides to respect
the humanity,” said Mohamed Olad Hassan , the chairman
of the Somali
Foreign Correspondents Association
The journalist was on
duty and his wife was waiting him somewhere at the
station when the mortars started to hit.
The wounded
journalist was rushed to hospital for treatment.
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