Posted: 12/3/2009 12:51:00 PM
Shabelle: SOMALIA
MOGADISHU (Sh. M. Network) – More than 10 people including Doctors, TFG ministers, students and journalists including Shabelle’s reporter Mohamed Amin Aden Abdulle have been killed and 40 others wounded after big blast targeted to Shamo hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu, officials confirmed to Shabelle radio on Thursday.
Officials confirmed to Shabelle radio that Prof Ibrahim Hassan Adow, minister of high education, Ahmed Abdullahi (Wayel), minister of education and Qamar Aden Ali, health minister of the transitional Federal Government, and Dr. Mohamed Aden (Shahid), one of the Banadir University Prof. were all killed in the explosion as a graduating ceremony continued at the hotel.
Two Somali journalists, Hassan Zubeyr Haji known as (Fantastic), Al Arabia’s international TV photographer and Mohamed Amin Aden Abdulle, Shabelle’ reporter died in the blast which occurred at Shamo hotel in the south of the capital Mogadishu.
Reports say that the blast was carried out by a man who imitated and dressed women’s cloths and entered to hotel with invitation who lately exploded in very crowd of people who attended well decorated ceremony that continued in Shamo hotel.
Sources and health officials said that more than 40 people including Omar Abdisalan known as (Omar Faruq), Reuters’ photographer, Saleban Olad Robe, sports minister were one of those injured in blast adding that most of them were rushed to Madina hospital in south of the capital.
Reliable sources said that the murdered students were one of more students who graduated from Banadir University in Mogadishu and attending their graduating ceremony held in the hotelon Thursday morning adding that the casualties could be more than the noted number.
It is unclear the kind of the blast that targeted to the hotel which caused the huge casualties and there is no group who claimed the responsibility of the explosion so far.
By: Hassan Osman Abdi +2521-5577743
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