Seven health workers, civilian killed in Somali village - aid group

Seven health workers and a civilian were killed in village north of the Somali capital after being abducted by masked men in military uniforms on Wednesday, a director of a local aid group said on Thursday.

"Armed masked men kidnapped seven of our health workers and a civilian from a health center run by Zamzam foundation at about 1 p.m. yesterday. We got their dead bodies today," Omar Jamac, the foundation's director, told Reuters.

The incident happened in Galooley village in the outskirts of Balad district, 30 km (18.6 miles) north of Mogadishu.