MOGADISHU — A suicide attack claimed by the Somali terrorist group
Al-Shabaab killed at
least seven people and injured nine others in Mogadishu on Sunday, the army and
eyewitnesses told AFP.
اضافة اعلان
A “desperate
terrorist” blew himself up on Sunday morning near a line of new recruits who
were enrolling at the Nacnac military base in the south of the Somali capital,
local military commander Abdullahi Adan told AFP.
“Seven people
were killed and nine others injured,” he said.
“I was close to
the site of the explosion; it was huge and I could see dead and injured
people,” eyewitness Ahme Gobe told AFP.
Another
eyewitness, Asha Omar, spoke of seeing at least 10 people taken away by
ambulance.
Al-Shabaab, an
extremist group linked to
Al-Qaeda that has been waging an insurgency against
the Somali state for 15 years, claimed responsibility for the attack.
Its fighters
killed at least 19 civilians in central Somalia earlier this month.
The group carried
out a major attack on a Mogadishu hotel in August, leaving 21 people dead and
117 injured following a 30-hour siege.
Somali President
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has faced a resurgent Al-Shabaab since his election in
May and vowed to wage an “all-out war” against the insurgents.
Mohamud also has
to grapple with a looming famine caused by the Horn of Africa nation’s worst
drought in 40 years.
Al-Shabaab has been
driven out of
Somalia’s urban centers, including Mogadishu in 2011, but remains
entrenched in vast swathes of the countryside.
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