An Ethiopian National Abdi Muse Khadir, working a farm in Ged-Baladh Village of the 
border between Somaliland and Ethiopia was alleged that he poisoned his co-workers on 
Wednesday morning.
Mr Abdi was captured by the Somaliland police, when the villager notified the case.
According to Gabiley region Police Commissioner, Saleban Muse Hassan, at least five 
persons were poisoned and, two of them were dead on the spot, while the other three 
are hospitalized in Gabiley.
“The five persons were working with Abdi in a farm in that area”, Added the police 
commissioner.
“Mr Abdi was captured by the police and now he is imprisoned in Gabiley, and we are 
investigating the reason, but according to the first information we have got, Mr. Abdi was 
sacked from the job, with another person, who didn’t still find him, has made poison to 
their friends” says the Police Commissioner.
It was in October 2007, when a man named Ambe Abdillahi Omar poisoned his family, in 
Faraweyne district of south Hargeisa, because of jealousy he got for the marriage of his 
young brother, which caused the death of three of his family, including his brother who 
has wedded in that night as well as his mother and sister. Also four others were taken to 
Hargeisa hospital