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Eight killed in Mogadishu in suicide bombing targeting govt convoy

July 10, 2021

Security forces and civilians gather near the wreckage after a suicide car bomb attack that targeted the city's police commissioner in Mogadishu, Somalia, Saturday. — courtesy photo
Security forces and civilians gather near the wreckage after a suicide car bomb attack that targeted the city's police commissioner in Mogadishu, Somalia, Saturday. — courtesy photo

MOGADISHU — A suicide car bomb targeting a government convoy exploded at a busy junction in Somalia's capital on Saturday, killing at least eight people, an eyewitness told Reuters.

The convoy was carrying senior police official Farhan Qarole, who survived the attack, the government news agency reported. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

But Abdiasis Abu Musab, military operations spokesperson for the Al-Qaida-linked militant group Al-Shabaab, told Reuters it was responsible for Saturday’s attack.

Al-Shabaab, which wants to overthrow the government and impose its strict interpretation of Shariah law, frequently carries out such bombings.

"I have seen eight dead bodies at the scene including a woman," Hassan Sayid Ali, a driver of a three-wheeled motorized vehicle taxi told Reuters at the scene of the blast at Banadir junction in Mogadishu. — Agencies


July 10, 2021
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