A Somali journalist was killed Saturday when a bomb attached to his car went off in Mogadishu, media reported.
"The award winning journalist Yusuf Ahmed Abukar was killed in Hamarweyn district when a bomb believed to have been attached to his car exploded," Xinhua quoted the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) as saying.
The Somali journalists union expressed shock at the killing and condemned it as "senseless and heinous murder".
The slain journalist was among the winners of the UN-sponsored Somalia Media Awards last year.
Yusuf Ahmed, 27, better known as Yusuf Kenyan, worked for the Mogadishu-based Mustaqbal radio and Ergo radio, a humanitarian radio based in Nairobi, NUSOJ added.
Ahmed mainly covered humanitarian issues for both stations and had previously worked for a number of local media outlets in Mogadishu.
It is not immediately clear why the journalist was targeted. He is among the dozens of journalists killed in Somalia since 1990.
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