A Somali sports journalist, Ahmed Hassan Ahmed was seriously wounded while covering a football match, on Tuesday afternoon, 29 March 2011 by a stray bullet. The match was between SITT and Dekedda.

The young sports journalist Ahmed Hassan Ahmed, a sports reporter for the Mogadishu-based radio SIMBA was hit by stray bullet in abdomen, seriously damaging the intestines, bladder and kidneys. Ahmed fell to the ground when he was hit by the bullet, receiving wounds in his left shoulder as well, according to an eyewitness journalist.

Ahmed Hassan Ahmed was immediately rushed to Madina Hospital where he was hospitalized. Doctors of Madina Hospital performed surgery on Wednesday morning, according to family members and the director of the SIMBA radio.

 

"We are very much shocked by this tragedy and we pray for him a full recovery” Somali Football Federation resident Said Mahmoud Nur said in a statement o Wednesday.

 

Health status unknown

"Ahmed went under medical surgery and now is unconscious and we don't know how his health would be as he was seriously wounded by the bullet penetrating many parts of his body," said Abdullahi Ali Farah known as Atosh, director of SIMBA radio.

The match between SITT and Dekedda was taking place at a football facility in the Somali political science university when an intense gun battle between the government allied African Union forces and the Shabaab erupted in an area about half a kilometer from the stadium.