Somalia appeals for international help after deadly blasts

MOGADISHU, 01 November 2022, (TON): Somalia’s president has issued an urgent plea for international help for wounded victims of devastating car bombings at the weekend that claimed the lives of 120 people.

Bulldozers were still clearing the blast site in the capital Mogadishu on Monday in the hunt for bodies feared trapped under the rubble.

Saturday’s attack, which also wounded more than 300 people, was claimed by the Al-Shabab group and was the deadliest in the fragile Horn of Africa nation in five years.

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said in a statement “we appeal for the international community, Somali brothers, and other Muslim brothers and or partners to send doctors to Somalia to help the hospitals treat the wounded people.”

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