Somalia: Al-Shabaab suicide bombing kills more than 20 people in Mogadishu
More than 20 people were killed in a suicide truck bombing in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday, in a fresh strike claimed by the al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab group.
“The tally we have made so far indicates that more than 20 people, most of them civilians, were killed in the blast,” said Ibrahim Mohamed, a Somali police commander.
It is unclear how many people had been in the vicinity of the blast, but the commander said the toll is expected to rise as several hospitals across the city opened doors to dozens of the dead and wounded.
Abdikadir Abdirahman Adem, director of Mogadishu’s AMIN ambulance service, said his staff had transported 48 injured people to hospital.