This is the moment a terrorist convicted of murdering five journalists was tied to a wooden post before being executed by a Somali firing squad.

According to Dailymail, Hassan Hanafi, a former media officer for the Somali Islamist group al Shabaab, was tied up at a police academy square in the capital Mogadishu today before being shot.

Hanafi was sentenced to death by military judges in March having been extradited from Kenya a year ago following his arrest in 2014. Hanafi, whose head was covered with a white sheet before he was killed, was widely known for arranging news conferences in the years when the militants controlled the city.