Somali journalist killed in car bomb explosion

The slain journalist was among the winners of the UN-sponsored Somalia Media Awards last year.

June 21, 2014 05:07 pm | Updated May 23, 2016 04:55 pm IST - Mogadishu

In this photo taken Sunday April, 4, 2010, Somali journalist Yusuf Keynan sits in radio station center in Kenya. No group has claimed the responsibility the Assassination of Yusuf Keynan, the editor of Mustaqbal radio in Mogadishu, who was killed as a bomb planted under his car exploded as he attempted to travel to work in the morning, a colleague of the murdered reporter has said. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

In this photo taken Sunday April, 4, 2010, Somali journalist Yusuf Keynan sits in radio station center in Kenya. No group has claimed the responsibility the Assassination of Yusuf Keynan, the editor of Mustaqbal radio in Mogadishu, who was killed as a bomb planted under his car exploded as he attempted to travel to work in the morning, a colleague of the murdered reporter has said. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

A Somali journalist was killed Saturday when a bomb attached to his car went off in Mogadishu, media reported.

“The award winning journalist Yusuf Ahmed Abukar was killed in Hamarweyn district when a bomb believed to have been attached to his car exploded,” Xinhua quoted the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) as saying.

The Somali journalists union expressed shock at the killing and condemned it as “senseless and heinous murder”.

The slain journalist was among the winners of the UN-sponsored Somalia Media Awards last year.

Yusuf Ahmed, 27, better known as Yusuf Keynan, worked for the Mogadishu-based Mustaqbal radio and Ergo radio, a humanitarian radio based in Nairobi, NUSOJ added.

Ahmed mainly covered humanitarian issues for both stations and had previously worked for a number of local media outlets in Mogadishu.

It is not immediately clear why the journalist was targeted. He is among the dozens of journalists killed in Somalia since 1990.

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