
SIMHA strongly condemns the Wednesday Suicide Car Bombing attack that injured seven Somali journalist in the strongest possible terms .
The condition of the journalists is now stable . SIMHA officials visited the journalists at the hospital to follow up on the condition
The seven were injured when a second explosion occuered while they were covering suicide bombing at the Hotel Dayax in downtown Mogadishu
The injured are as follows
Abdi Qadar Abdullahi Mohamed - Radio Kulmiye,
Farah Abdi Warsame - AP Photographer
Mohamed Abdiwahab –AFP Photographer
Yusuf Jabuuti - AlJazeera Arabic TV
Abdulkadir Mohamed Ga’al - Horncable TV
Maxamed Abdihakim Gurey- Foresight Production.
Mohamed -Freelance Journalist.
All the journalists are still undergoing trauma despite been discharged from hospital
“SIMHA sends its sympathies to the people of Somalia who suffered losses during the attack and wishes a quick recovery to the injured journalists”
“Somali Journalists should not risk their lives in the process of gathering news There is less training, less responsibility, and some reporters are taking increasing risks through an eagerness to get the first hand news, which may endanger them. Journalists must take maximum precaution and protect themselves” Hassan Gesey the Chairman of SIMHA said
Somalia which is experiencing an insurgency and a 24 year civil war is ranked as one of the most dangerous countries to practice journalism