11 August 2007
Ali Iman Sharmarke
Explosion
Managing Director of HornAfrik Radio, Ali Iman Sharmarke, was killed after a vehicle that he was riding was blown up by a remote-controlled mine laid by unknown assailants as vehicle was part of a convoy that came back from the burial of journalist Mahad Ahmed Elmi, who was killed this morning in Mogadishu.
Journalist Sahal Abdulle who works with Reuters News Agency was injured in the detonation, as he was in same vehicle with Ali Iman Sharmarke. According to journalists from the burial, Ali's vehicle was in the middle of the convoy and the mine did not blow up with the vehicles that were ahead of the Ali's vehicle.
