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Somalia suicide bomb kills two and injures 23

them dead and 23 injured. This is the result of a suicide attack perpetrated on Saturday, June 5, 2021 in a busy bus station in Mogadishu, Somalia, according to a police source. The explosion took place near a roadblock where security forces check vehicles slowed down by massive concrete blocks. According to several sources, the assailant was targeting a military convoy about to cross this obstacle. “The explosion was caused by a suicide bomber who wanted to hit a military convoy passing through the area. We have confirmed that two people were killed and 23 others wounded, including soldiers, ”Somali police spokesman Sadik Dudishe told Agence France-Presse.

“This is a densely populated area from which minibuses leave for Afgoye (25 km northwest of Mogadishu),” said a police officer present at the scene, Mohamud Adan. A witness to the attack said five people died in the attack. “A suicide bomber is at the origin of the explosion, he was trying to hit a military vehicle that was about to pass the roadblock but he blew himself up first. I saw the bodies of five people, ”said Fadumao Mohamed, adding that some of the victims were in a minibus.

An unclaimed act

“The explosion damaged a minibus and several passengers were hit, some were killed and others injured,” confirmed another witness, Dahir Shine. The incident had not been claimed early Saturday evening. These attacks are most often carried out by radical Islamist Shebab insurgents who have sworn the loss of the federal government.


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