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AFRICA TERRORISM ATTACK: 189 People killed in Mogadishu truck bomb, the deadliest attack ever to hit Somalia, 200 injured
President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has declared three days of national mourning for victims of the deadliest attack ever to hit Somalia.
The massive truck bomb, targeted a busy area in the Mogadishu’s Hodan district, killing at least 189 people and injured 200 others and the toll is expected to rise in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu.
The Somalia president has joined joined thousands of Somalian people who swiftly responded to desperate calls by Somalia’s hospitals for donations of blood to treat the wounded victims of the bombing.
It is reported that the police said security forces had been in pursuit of the suspicious truck but failed to stop the horrendous attack at the largely destroyed Safari Hotel, which is situated near Somalia’s foreign ministry, which left vehicle and building wreckage death and injury, with many dying at hospital and others arriving without limbs.
Somalia’s security forces and at least 20,000 African Union (AU) forces and US drone attacks have been targeted at the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group which is blamed for the attack but is yet to comment or accept responsibility. More news to follow.
photo– ITV-The search for survivors of the horrendous bombing in Mogadishu the capital of Somalia