Police inform Somalia media there “scores of Civilian casualties “after two explosions targeting a busy Saturday Junction in near the capital of Somalia key government offices.
Quoted by the Somali National News Agency national Police spokesman Sadiq Dodisha, who said two car The bombs are gone off.
An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw “several” of the bodies and said they looked like civilians traveling. on public Transportation. . said second The explosion occurred in In front of me of a busy restaurant.
The director of The Ambulance Service told the Associated Press that they had collected many of the wounded and dead. One of Ambulances that responded were destroyed in The second Abdul Qadir Aden explosion added in tweet.
“two car Bombs targeted the Ministry of Education building Along K5 street, resident Ahmed Nour told Reuters first Explosion hit walls of Ministry while second The explosion occurred when the ambulances arrived and people gathered help Victims, the police captain Noor Farah told Reuters.
“The second The explosion burned our ambulance while we were arriving to pick up the injured from first Blast “Abdul Qadir Abdul Rahman, founder of Amin Ambulance Service told Reuters, adding that a driver and first An aid worker was injured in blast.
There was no immediate claim of the responsibility in a city They are often targeted by al-Shabab extremists group.
There were simultaneous explosions along the Zuby Road and there various injuries. “We will provide details at a later time,” Dodeshe said.
a vehicle loader with Officer Ibrahim Muhammad said that an explosive device entered the ministry compound, followed by shooting.
Within a few minutes, another explosion occurred in The same area,” He said.
An eyewitness, Abd al-Rahman Issa, said that the road was busy When first blast gone off.
“I saw a lot of smoke in Ministry area “There is massive destruction,” said another witness, Aminu Salad.
extreme group It was seeking to overthrow the fragile with foreign support government in Mogadishu for About 15 years old.
Its fighters were driving out of Capital in 2011 by the African Union force but the group resident controls spaces of countryside And he has the ability to pay deadly strikes on civilian and military Objectives.
that they use Threats of Violence to collect taxes in territories under their jurisdiction.
The group last Responsibility week for a attack on hotel in port city of Kismayo who killed nine people 47 others were wounded.
in August , group fired for 30 hours gun and the bomb attack on Famous Life Hotel in Mogadishu killing 21 people 117 were wounded.
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud who I was elected in After the August blockade, May vowed to launch “all of the following -out war” on Islamists.
In September he urged citizens to stay away from jihadist-controlled areas, saying the armed forces and tribal militias were escalating. up Attacks against they.
US-Somali joint drone strike killed one of More armed senior leaders on 1 October.
Just hours after death I was announcedTriple bombing in southern city of Beledweyne killed at least 30 people.
