Monitoring Desk
MOGADISHU: Police officials said that two car bombs detonated by Al-Shabab militants in Somalia on Wednesday killed as many as 35 people, including eight persons of a single family, and injured 40 more.
According to Arab news, the attack in Mahas area was the latest in a series by Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Shabab since government troops and allied militias previous year start pushing the militants out of territory they (militants) had long held.
One bomb targeted house of a lawmaker: officials
A deputy police commissioner told Reuters that most of the dead are civilians including children and women. Officials said that only one kid survived from a family of 9 members. He added that the two suicide car bombs also burnt many civilian houses to ashes.
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Mahas District Commissioner Mumin Mohamed Halane said that one bomb targeted his home and the other targeted the house of a federal lawmaker. Al Shabab’s claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it had targeted militias and soldiers and put the number of dead at 87.
Al Shabab has been waging an insurgency against the government of Somalia since 2007. The group was pushed out of Hiraan last year by government forces.
