At least 17 killed in car bombing in Somalia capital

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At least 17 people were killed and 28 others wounded when a bomb went off outside a hotel near the international airport in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Monday, medical officials said. 

The Al Qaeda-linked Islamist group al-Shabaab, which is trying to topple Somalia’s weak U.N.-backed government, claimed responsibility for the attack. 

The city’s Madina hospital received 17 bodies and 28 people with injuries, 12 of them in a critical condition, said Mohammed Yusuf, the hospital’s director. 

The blast went off at the first checkpoint on the road that leads to Mogadishu airport, said Farah Hussein, a shopkeeper who witnessed the attack. 

Somalia has been raven by civil war since 1991, when clan warlords overthrew a dictator, then turned on each other. 


Source: Reuters News Agency  
 


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