{"id":7882,"date":"2021-04-28T21:10:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T21:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=7882"},"modified":"2021-05-02T02:34:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T02:34:21","slug":"at-least-7-killed-in-suicide-bombing-in-mogadishu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2021\/04\/28\/at-least-7-killed-in-suicide-bombing-in-mogadishu\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 7 killed in suicide bombing in Mogadishu"},"content":{"rendered":"

MOGADISHU <\/strong>— At least seven people were killed and more than 11 others wounded when a vehicle exploded outside a police headquarters in Somalia\u2019s capital, police and\u00a0health\u00a0officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The al-Shabab extremist group claimed responsibility.<\/p>\n

A police spokesman, Col. Abdiqani Mohamed Qalaf, said the suicide bomber tried to drive into the headquarters near the ex-control Afgoye road but was thwarted.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe could have killed more people if not stopped,\u201d Qalaf said. He said two soldiers and three passers-by were among the dead.<\/p>\n

Dr. Hashim Suldan at Medina hospital told The Associated Press they had received 13 wounded people and two of them died on arrival. Others had serious wounds from shrapnel.<\/p>\n

Al-Shabab often targets high-profile areas of Mogadishu, and observers had warned that the al-Qaida-linked group might take advantage of Somalia\u2019s current political tensions to strike again.<\/p>\n

The United Nations says tens of thousands of Mogadishu residents fled their homes this week after rival groups of soldiers clashed in the streets on Sunday amid a standoff over President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed\u2019s extended stay in power.<\/p>\n

The president in his address vowed that this week\u2019s scenes of clashes between rival soldiers would not be repeated, while many Mogadishu residents who had feared a return to open warfare in Somalia sighed with relief.<\/p>\n

Now the federal government and regional states are expected to return to talks soon on how to proceed with the election. Somalia has not held a direct one-person-one-vote election in decades as it rebuilds from some 30 years of conflict.<\/p>\n

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MOGADISHU — At least seven people were killed and more than 11 others wounded when a vehicle exploded outside a police headquarters in Somalia\u2019s capital, police and\u00a0health\u00a0officials said Wednesday. The al-Shabab extremist group claimed responsibility. A police spokesman, Col. Abdiqani Mohamed Qalaf, said the suicide bomber tried to drive into the headquarters near the ex-control …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-protection-cluster"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t