Unidentified gunmen abduct clerics in Mogadishu
Posted: 6/3/2009 5:33:00 PM
Shabelle: SOMALIA
MOGADISHU (Sh. M. Network) – unidentified gunmen have surrounded in Wahara-Adde neighborhood in Huruwa district in Mogadishu and abducted two Somali clerics from there overnight, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Wednesday.
Residents said that the armed men attacked Wahar Adde neighborhood in Huruwa district in Mogadishu on Tuesday evening around 7:30 local time covering the eyes of the people who were around the area and abducted two famous Somali clerics.
Residents said that the kidnapped religious men were called Sheik Mohamed Wehliye Dool, 80 years old and Sheik Mohamed Abshir Aden adding that the armed men took the clerics by two vehicles that they were traveling.
Abdishakur Sheik Mohamed Wehliye, one of the kidnapped clerics’ boy told Shabelle radio that bullets fired by the armed group had injured another religious man who came the neighborhood yesterday for visit to one those clerics.
Abdishakur also said that his father was ill and did not know the reason he was abducted adding that both men were not involving the political deadlock in Somalia.
No comment has come out from the kidnappers so far and it is unclear why and where they took the clerics.
Beheading scholars, kidnap journalists and stoning girls. Enough is enough!