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Somalia: Media worker wounded in car bomb blast in capital
[NEWS24] A journalist says a technician with his television station has been maimed in a boom-mobile blast in Somalia's capital.Abdiaziz Ibrahim, a Somali journalist with London-based Universal TV, says technician Abdihamid Karzai was maimed when a bomb planted in his car went kaboom!in a market in Mogadishu's Hamarweyne district. He says Karzai, who had been heading to work on Sunday morning, is being treated at a local hospital. Police Captain Mohammed Hussein confirms the incident and says the authorities are investigating. There is no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, but the Islamic Lion of Islam group al-Shabaab ...  the personification of Somali state failure...frequently carries out deadly attacks here. Somalia is often called one of the world's most dangerous places for media workers. Posted by: Fred 2017-03-13 |
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