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Five dead, 13 wounded in Mogadishu blast
[SHABELLENEWS] At least five people were killed and 13 maimed in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Sunday when a boom-mobile detonated on a busy road, the security ministry said.

Security ministry front man Ahmed Mohamud said five non-combatants were killed and ten others maimed in the boom-mobile blast.

"It occurred in front of business shops along the road", he told news hounds.

The car was parked along the congested Maka al-Mukarama road and detonated remotely, security sources told Media.

Witnesses said the blast left the street littered with bodies.

"I saw several dead bodies strewn and vehicles burning. The blast was very huge," witness Abdukadir Mohammed said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the bombing fits the pattern of al-Qaeda linked Shabaab bad boys, who have carried out numerous suicide kabooms and raids in the capital targeting civilian, government and military targets.

Al-Shabaab
... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia...
, which has been fighting for the last decade to overthrow successive internationally backed governments in Mogadishu, has also launched attacks in Kenya and Uganda, both contributors to a 22,000-strong African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
force in the country.


Posted by: Fred 2017-07-31
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