Somalia executes two Shebab fighters for killing journalist

April 09, 2016 19:52

Two members of Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab jihadist group were executed by firing squad today for the murder of a journalist killed by a car bomb last year, a judge said.

Abdirisak Mohamed Barow et Hassan Nur Ali, who admitted being Shebab members during their trial, were shot today morning in Mogadishu, Abdulahi Hussein Mohamed, deputy judge of the supreme military court told reporters.

"Both of them were found guilty of murdering journalist Hindiyo Haji Mohamed whose car was blown with explosive device," Hussein said.

National television journalist Mohamed was killed in December when his car blew up as he returned home from a university class in Mogadishu.

The military court recently rejected an appeal by the men -- and indeed increased their sentence from life imprisonment to execution.

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