Breaking News: Armed men kill shopkeeper in Dharkeynley district

Unidentified gunmen killed a man said to have been shopkeeper near Dharkeynley’s Moalim Noor bus station on Tuesday morning in the latest of a series of shootings targeting Mogadishu’s residents.

A resident who spoke on condition of anonymity told Goobjoog News that elderly man identified as Adan was gunned down in front of his shop near Salaam Mosque.

“I was at home, I heard gunfire and rushing outside I saw the body of a man lying in pool of blood outside his shop. I only know the man as Adan” said the witness.

Recent months several people have been targeted in the district.

Mid this month a woman as identified Fauzia Jamal Hassan was killed and two others were injured in drive by shooting by two motorbike-riding assailants.