A Somali television journalist was killed Monday evening in a suicide bombing at a restaurant in Mogadishu, police said.
Abdifatah Moalim Nur Qeys, who worked for Somali Cable Television, was fatally injured in the explosion at Blue Sky restaurant near the national museum.
"Security forces provided assistance to those impacted by the attack," police said."There is an ongoing investigation, and any updates will be shared with the public." "He was pronounced dead after we brought him to Recep Tayyip Erdogan hospital," said Abdishakur Mohamed Mohamud, who was among the journalists who took Qeys to the hospital.In a Telegram message, the al-Shabab militant group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. In the message, al-Shabab said a suicide bomber was behind the blast."SJS strongly condemns this atrocious attack targeting our colleague Abdifatah Qeys.
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