{"id":349665,"date":"2011-03-30T09:25:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T09:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/30\/somalia-journalist-fatally-wounded-in-football-match-coverage\/"},"modified":"2011-03-30T09:25:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T09:25:55","slug":"somalia-journalist-fatally-wounded-in-football-match-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/30\/somalia-journalist-fatally-wounded-in-football-match-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia: Journalist Fatally Wounded In Football Match Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"74.018461538462\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nusoj.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Union of Somali Journalists<\/a> (Mogadishu)\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p>30 March 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>press release<\/p>\n<p>Somali Sports journalist, covering football match, was fatally wounded in Mogadishu on Tuesday Afternoon,\u00a0 29 March 2011 around 17:00hrs local time, by stray bullet, NUSOJ reported.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Hassan Ahmed, a sports reporter for SIMBA radio based in Mogadishu was hit by stray bullet in the stomach, seriously damaging the intestines, bladder and kidneys.\u00a0 Ahmed fell to the ground when he was hit by the bullet, receiving wounds from left shoulder as well, according to an eyewitness journalist.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_a div ---><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we were covering the match between SITT and Dekadaha, Ahmed fell to the ground at the second half of the match \u201d Shafici Mohyadin Abokor, Press officer of Somali Football Federation, \u201cWe are very much upset by this tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Hassan Ahmed was immediately rushed to Madina Hospital where he was hospitalized.\u00a0 Doctors of Madina Hospital performed surgery at the stomach on Wednesday morning, according to family members and director of the SIMBA radio.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_b div ---><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAhmed went under medical surgery and now is unconscious and we don\u2019t know how his health would be as he was seriously wounded by the bullet penetrating many parts of his body.\u201d Abdullahi Ali Farah known as Atosh, Director of SIMBA radio who was at the hospital on Wednesday morning said.<\/p>\n<p>The match between SITT and Dekadaha was taking place to a football field at Hodan district, where an intense gun battle between the government allied African union forces and the Shabab was taking place.<\/p>\n<p>In another incident, a female journalist who works for the Mogadishu based Radio Voice of Peace,\u00a0 has been wounded by a stray bullet on 13 March, 2011, around 16:30hrs local time at the same neighborhood of Hodan.<\/p>\n<p>Miss. Samiira Mohamed Ali was hit by a stray bullet upon her return from work on 13 March, 2011.\u00a0 She was wounded by chest and right shoulder, she was admitted to Madina Hospital and now she is recovering and her health condition is good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are appalled by the constant journalists\u2019 casualties during the daily street battles in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, while trying to cover the news.\u201d Said Mohammed Ibrahim, NUSOJ acting Secretary General.\u00a0 \u201cWe praise for their courageous reporting and ask Allah for immediate recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of civilians are wounded or killed by stray bullets in Mogadishu each day.<\/p>\n<p><!-- end story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_banner_subbody div ---><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><b>More News on allAfrica.com<\/b><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201103300347.html\" title=\"Somalia: Journalist Fatally Wounded In Football Match Coverage\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Somalia: Journalist Fatally Wounded In Football Match Coverage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> National Union of Somali Journalists (Mogadishu) 30 March 2011 press release Somali Sports journalist, covering football match, was fatally wounded in Mogadishu on Tuesday Afternoon,\u00a0 29 March 2011 around 17:00hrs local time, by stray bullet, NUSOJ reported. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-349665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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