Hiiraan Online
Thursday September 14, 2017
24-year-old Abdullahi Osman Moalim died when a restaurant he was in was targeted by a suicide bomber. PHOTO COURTESY
Mogadishu (HOL) - A Somali journalist who was seriously injured in a suicide car bomb attack in central Somalia on Sunday has died on Wednesday.
Abdullahi Osman Moalim, a broadcast journalist working with Jubbaland TV and Radio Codka Hiiraan was waiting for a press conference with other journalists when a suicide bomber entered the restaurant and detonated his explosives.
The U.S embassy in Somalia extended their condolences to the Moalim family.
"The United States condemns Al-Shabaab and its indiscriminate attacks on the Somali people," the embassy said in a statement issued in Mogadishu. "We salute and encourage Somali journalists to continue their work despite the daily struggles and risks, in defence of the inalienable right of freedom of expression on behalf of the Somali people".
The UN Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) also expressed similar sentiments in a statement released on Wednesday.
"UN Somalia deeply regrets the death of Jubbaland TV journalist Abdullahi Osman Moalim from wounds in the Sunday suicide attack in Beledweyne," UNSOM said.
Moalim's death brings the total number of killed to four - including two journalists - were killed in the Al-Shabaab attack, fifteen others were seriously injured.