Wednesday November 1, 2023
Beledweyne (HOL) - The former chairman of the Mataban district youth association, Farah Abdi Towle, and another young man named Galad Abdi Qowle were killed in the Mataban district of Hiiraan region on Tuesday night.
According to residents, the incident is linked to the ongoing tribal revenge killings in the Somali Regional State in Ethiopia, which shares a border with Somalia's Hiiraan and Galgadud regions.
The killings in Mataban came just hours after two prominent people in business, Siad Tahliil Mohamed and Sheikh Hassan Diirshe, were also killed on Tuesday night in Dhusamareb town, the administrative capital of Galmudug State. These killings were also associated with tribal revenge.