Death toll rises in Somalia car bombings as recovery efforts end

Al-Shabaab targeted a business district in a high-traffic area in the city to send a message that it is still capable of staging blasts in Mogadishu after the government recaptured key areas in central regions.

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1 November 2022

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The death toll from the twin car bomb explosions in Mogadishu on Saturday is increasing with each passing hour, while the hospitals are dealing with hundreds of wounded people.

Somalia’s minister of health Ali Haji has confirmed that the death toll has reached at least 120 while the injuries climbed to more than 320, including dozens who have sustained critical injuries in the attack.

The minister added that several people are still missing as the search operation ended. They are presumed dead. The terror attack at the busy Zoobe junction marked the second deadliest in the country’s history.

The security agencies are yet to respond to questions about how the explosives-laden vehicles passed through the checkpoints that are manned by the police and NISA day and night.

Somali president Hassan Sheikh who visited the site on Saturday night vowed that Al-Shabaab will not carry out a such bombing in the capital, assuring the public that the group will be rooted out within a year.

Al-Shabaab targeted a business district in a high-traffic area in the city to send a message that it is still capable of staging blasts in Mogadishu after the government recaptured key areas in central regions.

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