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Suicide Blast in Mogadishu Kills six, including Senior Somali Police Officers
[Garowe] A bomber has targeted a cop shoppe in Mogadishu on Sunday night, killing at least six people in Somalia’s capital, police said, in the latest attack in the country amid a political crisis.A witness told Garowe Online that he saw bodies lying on the ground at the Waberi cop shoppe, near Maka al Mukarama road, the busiest street in Mogadishu following the devastating suicide boom-mobileing. "The blast was huge and the station is now destroyed. Cars were ruined and several nearby buildings are also damaged," said witness Yasin Haji, adding the ambulances rushed the maimed to the hospitals. Somali security officials have confirmed that at least six people, including Waberi police chief Ahmed Bashane and Deputy Commander for Waliyow Adde Police Division Abdi Basid were killed in the attack. Al-Shabaab  ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...has immediately claimed the responsibility for the earth-shattering kaboom that came amid thousands of security personnel, including police and intelligence being assigned to secure Mogadishu earlier this Holy month of Ramadan. Posted by: trailing wife 2021-05-10 |
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