Two men convicted of killing a journalist from UK-based Universal TV (pictured, screen grab) have been executed by firing squad in Somalia.
Colonel Mohamed Hassan, a spokesman for the judiciary in Mogadishu, says Ali Bashir Osman and Abdullahi Shariff were executed today.
The two were convicted of the killing of Mohammed Mohamud Tima Adde, a reporter who was shot in his car by gunmen a year ago.
Somalia is one of the most dangerous places in the world for media workers. Last August authorities executed a man, also convicted of killing journalists.
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The country is attempting to emerge from decades of conflict and faces an insurgency by al Qaeda linked militants known as al Shabab.
The US State Department declared al Shabab a terrorist organisation in February 2008.
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