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Turkey court fines Somali president’s son for car crash that killed courier

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud [File: Feisal Omar/Reuters]

A court in Turkey has convicted the son of Somalia’s president for the death of a motorcycle courier, but commuted his sentence of two-and-a-half years in prison to a fine.

Prosecutors had requested that Mohammed Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the son of Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, be sentenced to up to six years in prison.

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