Three Syrian doctors and their Somali colleague have been shot dead in an ambush near Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, witnesses have told the BBC.
Gunmen opened fire on their car as they travelled towards a health clinic, the eyewitnesses said.
Two of their bodyguards were also killed in the attack, while another Syrian and Somali doctor were seriously wounded, they said.
The militant Islamist group al-Shabab is waging an insurgency in Somalia.
However, it is not yet clear who carried out the ambush.
The Syrian doctors were believed to be in Somalia as aid workers.
The BBC’s Mohamed Moalimu reports from Mogadishu that the ambush took place in Siinka Dheer, a government-controlled district about 20km (13 miles) south of the capital.
The gunmen escaped after firing indiscriminately at the car, eyewitnesses told him.
The two wounded doctors are receiving emergency treatment at Mogadishu’s Madina hospital, our reporter adds.
The bodies of the six people killed in the attack have also been brought to the hospital, he says.
Source: BBC News
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