Hiiraan Online
Monday, March 28, 2016
Sade Mahad Dirir Guled - Photo: HOL
MOGADISHU (HOL) – Unidentified gunmen have shot dead a Somali Canadian man in Somali capital on Sunday evening, the latest in several attacks against returning Somali diaspora who started flocking back to Mogadishu since the ouster of Islamist fighters from Mogadishu in 2011, witnesses said.
Sade Mahad Dirir Guled, a 40-year-old man from Toronto was shot dead inside a mosque in Heliwa district, north of Mogadishu where suspected Al Shabab fighters often clash with security forces.
Witnesses said that two young men approached Mr. Sade and shot him dead several times before they escaped the scene.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the latest murder; however, the Al-Qaeda linked Al Shabab group often carries out such attacks.
Mr. Sade Mahad Dirir who returned to Mogadishu four years ago was among a large Somali-Canadian community who moved back to the city in recent years to rebuild their country after more than two decades of war.