Head of UN Development Programme in Mogadishu Shot Dead
On Sunday gunmen killed the head of the UN Development Programme in the Somali capital, a UN official said, the latest fatality in a string of attacks on aid workers in the lawless country.
Osman Ali Ahmed was shot at close-range as he left a mosque in southern Mogadishu’s Bulohube district, and later died while undergoing treatment in a Africa hospital military hospital.
“The gunmen shot Ahmed as he was leaving evening prayers in the mosque in Bulohube. He was taken to hospital where he died because of his wounds,” a UN official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
His wife Nasteho Abukar Yusuf confirmed Ahmed’s death.
“They shot him several times in the head and chest. He was taken to African Union peacekeepers’ hospital where he died,” she told AFP.
