The president of international football governing body FIFA Joseph S. Blatter has written to Somalia’s FA President Said Mahmoud Nur to express his condolences for the car bomb that ripped through the capital of Mogadishu Tuesday killing over hundred people mostly students.

“I would like to express my profound sympathy with the families of those killed in this terrible attack,” Blatter said in a letter on the evening on 4 October, the same day of the blast.

Among those injured were Somalia Football Federation General Secretary Said Arab and national team player Abdulahi Isse Mahmoud. “Our thoughts are with both of these members of the Somali football family and other person injured in this tragedy.”

Somali Football Federation authorities including the president Said Mahmoud Nur, his deputy Ali Said Guled Roble and Secretary General Abdi Qani Said Arab were in a meeting with Galmudug regional state representatives in the nearby Sahafi hotel when a large explosion rocked the whole area.

 

Both sides were disusing on some football development courses due to be held in the semiautonomous regional state by the end of the month.

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