Explosion in Mogadishu kills soldier, injures 6

MOGADISHU, Somalia(Keydmedia)- At least one person was killed and six others in an explosion rocked on Saturday Somalia’s chaotic capital, Mogadishu, the latest surge of bombings as Somali government forces struggled to secure the city, Keydmedia reports.
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Witnesses told Keydmedia English News correspondent in the capital that the attack used a hand grenade that was targeted on TFG military base at Bar-Ubah junction, killing a soldier, wounding six nearby civilians.

Local residents and ambulances reached at the scene following the bomb attack and taken immediately victimized to the medical hospitals in Mogadishu for treatment.

Reports indicated that the attackers have escaped from the area before Somali soldiers arrived and launch search operations that temporarily halted public movements at Bar-ubah junction, Somali capital.

Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Shabaab militants, fighting Somalia’s Western-backed government, pulled out of most of their permanent bases in Mogadishu in August, and vowed to switch to guerrilla tactics and target government installations and AMISOM bases.

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