Thursday, January 28, 2010
Dr. Peter Nthumba says Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud died late Wednesday of intestinal bleeding that may have been caused by an ulcer or stress. Nthumba operated on the 8-year-old earlier this week.
Aid group Healing the Children of Minnesota flew Mohamoud to Kenya in October for surgery.
His face was almost entirely blown off in September when a bullet hit him in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
His plight personified the brutal conflict in Somalia. Its capital sees near-daily bloodshed as a powerful insurgent group with links to al-Qaida tries to overthrow the fragile government.
Source: Associated Press