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Top Somali journalist killed

Insurgents take over a former Ethiopian defensive position Hassan Mahamud/IRIN
    NAIROBI

    The director of HornAfrik, one of Somalia’s leading radio and TV stations, was killed by three masked gunmen in the Bakara Market area of Mogadishu on 4 February.



    The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said the attackers shot Said Tahlil repeatedly as he and six other senior journalists were walking to a meeting with members of the militant Al-Shabaab group.



    Tahlil became director of HornAfrik after its founder, Ali Sharmarke, was killed in a roadside bomb attack in Mogadishu in August 2007. He is the second Somali journalist killed this year and the fourth HornAfrik journalist killed since 2007.



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