Crime Watch: Number of people killed in Somalia In January, 2015

Somalia has been ravaged by civil war over 20 years, so killing people has become the norm whether they are innocent or guilty, with reason or without reason. Moreover there is very limited justice served or most of the time no justice is served when a person is killed.

Therefore Goobjoog has undertaken an initiative to document those killed or sustained injuries every month under our Crime Watch Project which promotes justice and constitutional rights of the citizens.

We may not be able to document all those killed or injured due to the scarce resources and sometimes lack of access to the affected areas in the country and also lack of basic institutions in the country like hospitals, mortuaries and police service which usually gathers information about the dead.

According to our records there were 40 people killed and 29 were injured in the month of January 2015 and this is three times lower than the crimes we recorded in December, 2014.

The makeup of people killed in December are as usual, they include are high ranking officials serving in the government; business people, religious people, women, journalists and government soldiers.

January 1, 2015: Two journalists working for Radio Galkayo got injured after the station came under bomb attack during a night time, the journalist are Shine Abdi Ahmed and Abdullahi Mohamud Adan. The town in Mudug Region has in the past seen frequent attacks against journalists.
January 1, 2015: Two people including one woman were killed after soldiers opened fire on pro Ahlu Sunna Religious Sect protestors who were demonstrating against the takeover of Guri El town by the government, the town was previously controlled by Ahlu Sunnah before they were driven out.
January 2, 2015: A bomb blast in Mogadishu kills the driver of a car which the bomb has been fitted into; the victim Mohamed Abdi was working one of the city’s travel agencies.
January 2, 2015: 7 Kenyan nationals were injured and two Somalia nationals were killed in Galkayo, Mudug, after the bus they were travelling targeted with explosives, The Kenyans are teachers at Yameys School.
January 2, 2015: Gunmen kill a man of 70 years old and his daughter in Koryoley, Lower Shabelle. According to sources, this is linked to tribal revenge killing.
January 3, 2015: Two men armed with pistols killed a lone government soldier at Mogadishu’s Albaraka Junction.
January 4, 2015 : A mentally disturbed man hacks to death his brother near Jowhar, Middle Shabelle, this is according to their father Mohamed Ali Magan
January 4, 2015: Alshabab snatches a man from a passenger car travelling to Luuk Jelow in Hiran, and latter dumps his beheaded body in the area. The man belonged to the apolitical Tableek religious sect.
January 4, 2015: at least 4 people were killed after a suicide bomber ramps his car at National Intelligence Services convoy at Afisiyone area of Mogadishu.
January 6, 2015: Alshabab executes publicly 4 people accused of spying in Bardhere, Gedo .
January 7, 2015: An engineer with name Ibrahim Ahmed Ali was killed in Hiran region.
January 7, 2015: A university lecturer, Abdihalim Ahmed Noor was injured badly after a bomb fitted onto his car exploded.
January 8, 2015: An explosion occurs at Ali Kamin neighborhood of Mogadishu, its causes unknown number of death and injuries.
January 10, 2015: Two security officers were killed and three other people injured including a woman in Kismayo, after bomb exploded at Guul-Wade saburb of Kismayo.
January 10, 2015: At least two police officers got injured after a bomb was hurled at a police station in Bosaso, Puntland.
January 11, 2015 : A businessman named Adan Hashi was killed in Kismayo, people accused The Interim Jubbaland Administration to be behind the killing
January 12, 2015: 2 people were killed and 12 others were injured after two racing cars collide on each other, causing one of the cars to overturn.
January 12, 2015: The bodies of two dead residents were found on the Kismayo beach, it’s alleged that the two men were arrested in an operation by the IJA forces two nights before.
January 14, 2015 : Armed men kills a guard at a mechanical garage in Hodan District, Mogadishu
January 14, 2015: One soldier was killed; two others were injured after a bomb was hurled at a checkpoint they were manning in Bosaso, Puntland.
January 16, 2015: Unknown armed men hurls granades at Radio Galkaayo in Mudug, this is the send such attack on the station.
January 16, 2015: Car accident in Dharkenley district, Banadir causes unknown number of casualties.
January 17, 2015: Gunman kills in Baidoa prominent religious scholar Sheik Sharif Sayid Ali, 66.
January 18, 2015: A blast resulted from the popular rickshaw motor in Dharkenley district, Banadir, killing the driver and injuries two others.
January 19, 2015: A landmine kills the chairman of Afgoye land disputes commission Mr. Ali Jaliil, he was also a mayoral appointee of Afgoye town according to the governor of Lower Shabelle Abdikadir CD.
January 22, 2015: At least three people including two police man were killed after a suicide bomber ramped a car at Hotel SYL, Mogadishu where Turkish delegations were staying ahead of President Erdogan’s visit to Somalia.
January 24, 2015 : An official from Mogadishu local government named Abdulahi Faraweyne and his guard were killed in Yakshid district
January 24, 2015: Gunmen kills a student in the Labodhagah Neighborhood of Mogadishu, according to sources the student was the son of well known Somali artist Mrs. Laki Haju Waeys who lives in USA.
January 26, 2015 : A young man was killed in Baraka Market
January 29 , 2015 : A young man working with Turkish road construction workers was killed in Baraka Market, Mogadishu.
January 30 , 2015 : Government soldiers kills the deputy mayor of Buurdhubo district of Gedo Mr. Ali Matan Ali in an accidental fire, this is according to Col. Isak of Somali National Army

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