Journalist’s killers executed - report

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Published Oct 27, 2014

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Mogadishu -

A Somali police official says two men convicted of killing a journalist have been executed by firing squad.

Colonel Mohamed Hassan, a spokesman for the judiciary in Mogadishu, says Ali Bashir Osman and Abdullahi Shariff were executed on Sunday.

The two were convicted of the killing of Mohammed Mohamud Tima Adde, a reporter for the UK-based Universal TV, who was shot in his car by gunmen a year ago.

Somalia is one of the most dangerous places in the world for media workers.

Last August, authorities executed a man also convicted of killing journalists.

The country is attempting to emerge from decades of conflict and faces an insurgency by al-Qaeda-linked militants known as al-Shabaab.

The US State Department declared al-Shabaab a terrorist organisation in February 2008. - Sapa-AP

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