Fowsia Musse returns to Maine after being shot in Ethiopia

Nov. 23—Fowsia Musse has returned house to Maine together with her two youngest kids after struggling a number of gunshot wounds and present process a leg amputation in Ethiopia late October.

Musse continues to be receiving medical therapy, however her situation is bettering, in response to a Wednesday GoFundMe replace from her daughter, Shadia Abdulahi.

“She’s doing much better than beforehand earlier than, and now we’re engaged on additional medical lodging for her,” she wrote. “My brother and sister are doing effectively, and so they’re all so grateful for you guys!!!”

Early final week, Musse was transported from Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, to Maine by an air ambulance partly funded by a GoFundMe fundraiser, which had amassed greater than $142,000 as of midday Wednesday.

Musse and her sister, Juweria Subcis, a member of the Somali Regional State Parliament in Ethiopia who had visited Lewiston not too long ago, had been shot Oct. 25 inside Jigjiga’s Garaad Wiil-waal airport by a member of the federal police power. Subcis died on the spot.

Musse and a regional cupboard official, Abdirashid Mohammed, had been badly damage within the taking pictures. Musse’s 14-year-old son was additionally among the many injured, however her 8-year-old daughter was unhurt.

In line with the Addis Normal, the taking pictures was deliberate, however the circumstances stay a thriller.

The journey to Ethiopia was Musse’s first time returning to the area after coming to the U.S. in 1993 at age 12. Musse’s mom, who she final noticed 27 years in the past, was not too long ago identified with sarcoma, a sort of most cancers within the bones and comfortable tissues. Musse had deliberate to go to her and different members of the family throughout her time in Ethiopia.