Mahad Ahmed Elmi
Year: 2007
Nationality: Somalia
Killed by: Political Group
Location: Mogadishu, Somalia
Press organization: Capital Voice
What's Mahad Ahmed Elmi's story?
Prominent journalists Ali Sharmarke and Mahad Ahmed Elmi were killed in Mogadishu in two separate attacks on the same day. Unknown gunmen shot Elmi, director of Capital Voice radio, a private station run by HornAfrik Media, four times in the head at close range as he neared the door of his office early that morning, according to news reports and local journalists. He bled to death after being rushed to the hospital.
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