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January 29, 2008

Somali journalist killed in bomb blast

By Julie Tomlin

Somali journalist Hassan Kafi Hared was killed on 28 January when a mine exploded on a road in southern Somalia. A driver and two doctors were also killed.

Reporters Without Borders reports that the Kenyan and French doctors, and their Somali driver were killed when a bomb was set off by remote control. Hared was walking by the car when the explosion happened.

A journalist for Somali National News Agency (SONNA), a Somali government-run news agency, and a Somali website called gedonet.com, he was on his way to a press conference.

The National Union of Somali Journalists has condemned the killing.

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