.
Four people killed, 10 hurt in suicide blast in Mogadishu
- font size decrease font size
increase font size
MOGADISHU, 20 January 2022, (TON): State-run news agency said “at least four people were killed and 10 others injured in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu in a suicide bombing at a tea-shop near a military base.”
Local residents told media “patrons, who included both soldiers and civilians, were sipping tea when the bomber blew himself up.”
One resident, Ahmed Ismail, said he heard the blast but that when he ran towards the scene to find out what had happened he was blocked by soldiers.
The Nacnac base outside which the blast occurred is located near a Turkish military garrison which helps to train Somali troops.
“A mujahid bomber targeted the tea shop in which there were Somali soldiers trained by Turkey” al Shabaab’s military operations spokesman Abdiasis Abu Musab told media.
He added that the number of victims both dead and injured were 20.
Leave a comment
Make sure you enter all the required information, indicated by an asterisk (*). HTML code is not allowed.
