By Shafi’i Mohyaddin Abokar
Mogadishu, Nov 18 (Kashmir Watch): Chinese news agency (Xinhua) correspondent Abdurrahman Hassan Warsame is among seven civilians wounded in fighting in Somali capital early on Wednesday morning.
The journalist whose injury is not so serious was talking photos from the battle ground when a stray bullet hi him in the left shoulder and was immediately rushed to the Daynile Hospital in Mogadishu.
Doctors say that Warsameh is now in a good condition and is developing well as he is slightly injured.
Warsameh became the second prominent journalist wounded in Somalia in less than 24 hours. Last night Voice of America’s Somali service correspondent Mohamed Yasin was wounded in the city of Galkayo about 750 kilometers north of the capital Mogadishu.
Residents say that Mohamed Yasin’s car was stopped by the Puntlnad police in the city and they then fired him after he left from a check point in the city. It is unclear why the police fired on the journalist’s car, but Puntland police commander in the city Col Muse Hasasi told reporters that the car was going on a high speed so that officers fired on suspicion.
How ever a journalist who witnessed the incident Amina Moalim Maanka said that one of the officers fired three bullets on the car and one of them hit in the journalist’s right ribs.
Mohamed Yasin is now being treated at the Galkayo hospital, where doctors say he is developing signs of fitness. “The incident comes as there has been misunderstanding between journalists and police commanders in the city after police tortured two local journalists last week” Amina added in a telephone conversation.
On October 1st authorities in the semiautonomous state of Puntland banned VOA Somali service correspondents from working in the region after the station was accused of instigating insecurity in the Puntland regions.
Somalia is one of the most dangerous grounds in the world for journalists to work, with six prominent journalists killed in and outside the lawless capital Mogadishu since the start of January this year.
Posted on 18 Nov 2009 by
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