MOGADISHU: A Somali journalist died in Mogadishu Saturday after a bomb believed to have been attached to his car was remotely detonated, police and witnesses said.

The victim, prominent local journalist Yusuf Keynan, was working with Mustaqbal radio, a private Mogadishu FM station, and also contributed to the Nairobi, Kenya-based UN humanitarian radio Ergo.

“It was a local journalist who was targeted in the attack. The bomb attached under the seat of his car went off, leaving him dead,” Somali police official Abdi Garane said.

Source: AFP