Car Bomb Kills at Least 6 and Injures 13 Others in Mogadishu
By HUSSEIN MOHAMED and MOHAMED IBRAHIMJULY 30, 2017
MOGADISHU, Somalia — A car bomb exploded near a police station in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, on Sunday, killing at least six people
and wounding at least 13 others, according to a police captain.
#Somalia..#BREAKING pic.twitter.com/NpZMjSHlDu Abdifitah Omar Halane, an official in the Banadir region, where the blast near the police station occurred, said at least four people had been killed and six others wounded,
but local media reports and witnesses said the death toll was much higher.
After the attack on the African Union peacekeeping troops on Sunday, near the villages of Danow and Golweyn, a spokesman for the Shabab was quoted by the Shabab media arm as saying
that 39 Ugandan soldiers had been killed and that ammunition had been seized.
The explosion came on the same day that fighters from the Shabab terrorist group launched a
deadly attack on a convoy of Ugandan soldiers with the African Union in southern Somalia.
Mohamed Hussein said the explosion near Waberi police station along the busy Maka Almukarramah road might have been the work of a suicide bomber.
Abdi Ali Shire, a Somali media trainer who was about 100 yards away from the explosion, said the bomb went off in front of the Midnimo Supermarket among dozens of vehicles
that were lined up, and some cars driving on the road.
