Puntland authorities executed two men arrested, charged in court, and found guilty of raping and murdering Aisha Adan Ilyas in Bosaso in February 2019.
Abishakur Mohamed Dige and Abdifatah Abdirahman Warsame were executed publicly by a firing squad in Bosaso.
The execution happened on Tuesday morning.
The two were in a three-man gang who raped and murdered Aisha. However, the third member of the gang awaits the court’s decision on whether he should face a similar fate too.
Aisha’s father, Adan Ilyas, requested the court to delay the third convict’s execution by 10 days.
Last year, the Court of First Instance in Nugal Region found the three men guilty and sentenced them to death by a firing squad for raping and murdering a 13-year old girl.
On June 30, 2019, the Court of Appeal in Puntland supported the decision of the Nugal court before Puntland’s Supreme Court delivered their approval for the decision in August 2019.