13 children injured,eight dead and as bomb explodes near school in Somalia
According to state media, at least eight civilians were killed and 17 others injured, including 13 schoolchildren, after a suicide car bomb exploded in Somalia's capital Mogadishu Thursday morning.
The blast occurred in Mogadishu's Hodan district, near two schools and the residence of former president Abdikasim Salat Hassan, according to the Somali National News Agency (SNNA). Police say the target was an armoured vehicle guarding the United Nations, according to SNNA.
The eastern African Somali capital has been rattled by bomb attacks, with dozens either killed or injured. The string of bombings has been linked to the notorious terror group Al-Shabaab, which has claimed responsibility for some of the attacks in the past.
More than 20 people were killed in early March and at least 30 injured following a deadly car explosion at the gates of the popular Lulu Yemeni restaurant near the port; police Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack on the facility, hit twice within a year.
The restaurant bombing had followed another car explosion near the Somalian presidential palace in Mogadishu in mid-February. At least one person was killed and ten wounded in that attack. Al-Shabaab had earlier claimed responsibility for a bombing at the gate of Mogadishu's Afrik hotel in January.
A former Somali defence minister, Mohamed Nur Galal, was killed in the explosion at the hotel, which the country's senior officials often visit, police said. The Al-Shabaab Islamist sect was dislodged from Mogadishu in 2011 by local forces with help from the Africa Union. Still, the terror group has continued to unleash lethal attacks in the city.
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