A military court in Somali capital, Mogadishu has sentenced six alleged Al shabaab members, five in jail and one to death penalty on Thursday.
Abdirisack Mohamed Barrow has been sentenced to death penalty after he was found guilty of attaching a bomb to the slain Somali female journalist Hindiye Hajji Mohamed.
Mohamed Shute the chairman of Somali military tribunal said three of the defendants were sentenced to life in prison, while the two others have given to five year-jail term.
The court said the Al shabaab operatives were involved the murder of Hindiya Hajji, a female journalist working for the state-run media who was killed in a bomb fitted into her car in Mogadishu.