A Turkish national has been killed today in the capital Mogadishu amid he was driving in the city.
Senior Turkish airline officer was today killed after unknown armed gunmen opened fierce fire on a Saadettin Doğan car that the officer was driving at KM4 Street in Mogadishu.
This officer was confirmed dead before he was admitted to the hospital where the attackers immediately escaped the scene.
The motive of the killing of the officer said to have been working for Turkish airline; the first international airline that started flights in Mogadishu since Somalia’s central government was ousted in early 90s, is not yet established although security agencies has related it with the Al-qaida linked Al-shabab militants who recently vowed to plot attacks against Turkish nationals in Somalia.
Turkish ambassador to Somalia Kani Torin has urged the federal government of Somalia to carry out intensive investigations on this murder and bring the perpetrators before the justice.
Turksih airline has early in 2012 started direct flights to Mogadishu, marking the first international airline that landed in the war ravaged international airport Adden Adde in more than twenty years
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