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15 killed in Al-Shabaab attack in Somali government building
[NEWS.XINHUANET] At least 15 people were killed and scores of others injured in a bomb kaboom that hit the Wadajir district headquarters in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday.Internal Security Ministry front man Ahmed Mohammed Mohamud said a vehicle loaded with explosives went kaboom!inside the headquarters and also destroyed houses nearby. "There are heavy casualties and the corpse count could rise," Mohamud told journalists in Mogadishu. Among the injured is Wadajir district commissioner who was inside the building at the time of the attack. Ambulances rushed to the scene and carried away the maimed to nearby hospitals for treatment. An eye witness Guled Isse told Xinhua he saw bodies strewn on the floor minutes after the kaboom. Terror group al-Shabaab ...  Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...has grabbed credit for the attack, which happened barely a week after another deadly attack at a restaurant in Mogadishu claimed 29 lives. Most of the casualties were reported to be civilians who were near the scene at time of the boom-mobile kaboom. Local residents said the blast has destroyed the compound and sent a tick plume of black smoke into the sky. Posted by: Fred 2017-06-21 |
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