Two clerics kidnapped in Mogadishu

Unknown gunmen have abducted two prominent clerics in Mogadishu’s north district of Heliwa, witnesses said on Wednesday.

Relatives said, Sheik Mohamed Wehliye Dol, and Sheik Mohamed Abshir Aden were taken from their houses by unknown gunmen armed with pistols with two cars they were traveling in on Tuesday evening.

Abdishakur Sheik Mohamed Wehliye, a son of Sheik Mohamed Wehliye told reporters that the gunmen injured another Sheik who came to visit his father when they opened fire to the Sheiks.

Abdishakur said he did not know why his father was kidnapped and added that his father was not belong to any of the rival groups in the country.

Somali gunmen have kidnapped a TV journalist on Tuesday in Mogadishu outskirts.

Scores of foreign journalists and aid workers have been kidnapped in Somalia in recent months.