MOGADISHU -- Three Syrian doctors
| ...who thought they were safe in Mogadishu as opposed to Aleppo... |
and a Somali colleague have been killed when gunmen in vehicle Wednesday opened fire at their car in Siinka-Dheer neighborhood, about 20 km south of Mogadishu, Garowe Online reports.
| The police were all at a ceremony... |
According to witnesses, two of their bodyguards were also killed in the attack and the assailants immediately escaped from the scene of crime after the shooting.
"Armed men opened fire on a car carrying the doctors on their way to Fiqi Hospital, only one Somali doctor had survived the incident," an eyewitness told GO.
Local reports add that the corpses of the targeted foreigners were lying on the ground for many hours, although Siinka-Dheer neighborhood remains under the control of Somalia Federal Government forces.
Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab group declared it didn't carry out the attack, calling the attack as heinous act.
| So the Syrians must have been there as their friends... |
Speaking on BBC Somali Service, the Director of Fiqi Hospital Dr. Abdirahman Moallim Fiqi said "The doctors [Syrians] have been providing medical services at the hospital and we didn't feel anything from them, also they haven't raised any suspicion. The enemy of the health sector have carried out the killing," adding that their hospital wouldn't halt its services due to today's attack. |