Somalia’s president says at least 100 people were killed in Saturday’s two car bombings at a busy junction in the capital and the toll could rise.
Rescuers remove a seriously-injured body from the scene of a double car-bomb attack in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022. Two car bombs exploded Saturday at a busy junction in Somalia's capital near key government offices, leaving"scores of civilian casualties," police told state media. in the country's deadliest attack since a truck bombing at the same spot five years ago killed more than 500.
Al-Shabab usually doesn’t make claims of responsibility when large numbers of civilians are killed, as in the 2017 blast, but it has been angered by a high-profile new offensive by the government that also aims to shut down its financial network. The group said it is committed to fighting until the country is ruled by Islamic law, and it asked civilians to stay away from government areas.
Halima Duwane was searching for her uncle, Abdullahi Jama. “We don't know whether he is dead or alive but the last time we communicated he was around here,” she said, crying.
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