Officer Zhang Nan

K9 Officer Zhang Nan, 29, was killed on July 26 2015 during a suicide attack by Al-Shabaab that was launched onto Jazeera Palace Hotel at around 4 pm local time in Mogadishu, which killed more than a dozen people.The six-story luxury hotel in the Somali capital houses embassies from China, Egypt, Kenya and Qatar, and hosts high-level government meetings. Zhang Nan, was providing security in the Chinese embassy in Somalia. He had been serving in the army for 11 years. The eulogy praised Zhang’s skill and courage at an event attended by about 1,000 people, including representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Shandong provincial government and the armed police force.

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