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| Three Killed in Somalia Car Bomb Targeting Airport Official |
| 2016-02-06 |
| [ALMANAR.LB] Three people were killed Friday in a boom-mobile targeting an airport official in Somalia's capital, police said, as Sherlocks probe an airplane blast experts fear was also a bomb. "An airport security official was targeted but he survived the attack, three other people including a woman were killed in the blast," police official Ali Dahir told AFP. The man believed to have been targeted had just left the vehicle to go into a chemist shop. "A man got out of the car and entered a pharmacy, but before he returned a huge blast destroyed the car. I saw several people burned," said Aded Mohammed, who was near the kaboom. No group has grabbed credit for the boom-mobile, but Somalia's Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab bully boyz have carried out a raft of similar attacks in the past. The boom-mobile follows a blast on a commercial airliner that ripped a hole in its fuselage, 15 minutes after take-off from Mogadishu on Tuesday. It is unclear whether the two blasts were in any way related, but security has been boosted around the already heavily fortified airport. |
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