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MOGADISHU, Somalia -– Armed gunmen shot and killed a doctor as he left a mosque in Elesha Biyaha – a suburb of Mogadishu – Friday night, Garowe Online reports.
As people were leaving a mosque in Elesha Biyaha after Tarawih prayers masked gunmen shot and killed Dr. Osman Abdirahman MaÂ’alin Fiqi a doctor in Elesha Biyaha at the Fiqi hospital. The masked gunmen carrying pistols escaped from the scene.
The murder of Dr. Osman Fiqi who father is a prominent doctor in Mogadishu had been working the country after returning from studying abroad. Dr. OsmanÂ’s uncle former National Security Agency Director Ahmed MaÂ’alin Fiqi stated his nephew had no affiliations to politics and that the act resembled Al Shabaab tactics.
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“Dr. Osman had no ties to politics and we can’t understand why he was killed; however the way he was killed is a style copied from how Al Shabaab kill those giving back to the community,” said Fiqi.
The killing of the doctor follows the killing of Rahmo Dahir, Deputy Commissioner of MogadishuÂ’s Yaqshid district on Thursday. Also on Thursday, four other people were killed in MogadishuÂ’s Bakara market. |