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Day 2: Turkish Nationals among 4 Dead in Somalia Bombing |
2021-01-03 |
Follow up on this story from yesterday. [AnNahar] Two ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... krazed killer group, officials said. The attack targeted employees of a "The number of our nationals who bit the dust in the terror attack in Somalia has increased to two," Koca said, adding the lives of the maimed Turks were not in danger. The two others killed in the assault were Somali special police, said Mohammed Ibrahim, a police officer in Afgoye. He said security forces opened fire as the bomber tried to force his way into a construction site where work was underway. "Unfortunately, he was already close to where people were gathered and detonated, inflicting casualties," he said. Al-Shabaab, the al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group waging a deadly insurgency against the foreign-backed government in Mogadishu, grabbed credit for the attack. ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... is one of Somalia's closest foreign partners and is among several nations training soldiers to take over from African peacekeeping force AMISOM, whose troops are set to leave the country this year after 14 years. In June, two people were killed when a jacket wallah targeted a The bomber tried to conceal himself among young recruits who had gathered to enlist in the academy, which opened in 2017 and is among the largest foreign-run military centre in Somalia. According to the Ankara also offers Somalia humanitarian assistance and scholarships, and earlier this year sent planeloads of medical equipment to help the country deal with the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ![]() pandemic. During some of the worst attacks in Mogadishu, Turkey has often flown the maimed to its country for treatment. |
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