Mogadishu Suicide Bomber Kills at Least 10 at Army Recruitment Drive
- On Sunday, a suicide bomber targeted a line of young recruits waiting to register at the Damanyo army facility in Mogadishu, resulting in the deaths of at least 10 individuals.
- The attacker detonated explosives after alighting from a speeding tuk-tuk and running into the line, amid hundreds of teenagers registering at the gate.
- Healthcare personnel at the military facility reported receiving 30 wounded individuals from the explosion, six of whom succumbed to their injuries immediately, while numerous discarded shoes and the suicide bomber's remains were found at the site.
- The attack echoed a 2023 suicide bombing at the nearby Jale Siyad base that killed 25 soldiers and followed the assassination of Colonel Abdirahmaan Hujaale the previous day.
- Al Shabaab claimed responsibility, stating it killed and wounded soldiers, and local reports note militant infiltration into government forces, suggesting ongoing conflict intensity.
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Radical Islamists al-Shebab claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on Sunday against a barracks in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, which killed several people. On Tuesday morning, several mortar fire hit the Halane neighbourhood, near the airport very early this morning, an attack claimed in the wake by the terrorist group Al-Shabaab.
Suicide bomb kills several at Somali army camp: ministry
Several people were killed and others wounded when a suicide bomber thought to be from the Al-Shabab militant group targeted an army recruitment centre in Mogadishu on Sunday, Somali authorities and witnesses said. The attacker, disguised as a civilian, detonated explosives outside the Xero Damaayo camp in southern Mogadishu at 9:20 am (0620 GMT), the information ministry said. "Casualties have been reported but details are still being verified,…


Suicide bomber targets military camp; 13 dead
MOGADISHU, Somalia — A suicide bomber in the Somali capital on Sunday targeted young recruits waiting to register at a military camp, killing at least 13 and wounding 21 others, witnesses said.
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