Somali-Canadian television personality Hodan Nalayeh, who created the program Integration TV directed at the Somali diaspora, was reported as one of those killed in the Friday attack by Al Shabaab.



BREAKING: Inspirational TV personality who returned from Canada to report positive stories about Somalia, Hodan Nalayeh, killed in Al-Shabaab complex attack in Kismayo - Minister @JustAwHirsi confirms. Hodan was the founder of @IntegrationTV that reports on local and diaspora. pic.twitter.com/cjRQ2TPflg July 12, 2019



The group claimed responsibility for a car bomb blast and gunfire assault in Kismayo that killed Nalayeh as well as SBC TV correspondent Mohamed Omar Sahal, Al-Jazeera reported.

Civic society figure Deq Isse Abdulle was also killed as well as Nalayeh’s husband.