16 May 2007
Abshir Ali Gabra and Ahmed Hassan
Shooting
At least 8 persons, including two journalists, were killed and 6 were wounded after a convoy carrying a Somali government delegation led by the governor of Middle Shabelle province, south-central Somalia, Mohammed Omar Deele, was ambushed by unknown gunmen, according to witnesses in the region.
Abshir Ali Gabra, a journalist working for IQK FM station based in the capital Mogadishu and Ahmed Hassan with SBC Radio in Bosaso (A commercial city in the semiautonomous province in north Somalia) were among the killed. The journalists were also working with Jawhar radio in the region.
