African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) soldiers from Burundi patrol on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, May 22, 2012.
OCTOBER 14th, 2018
By Patryk Krych | The World Daily
Twin bombings in Somalia – Death tolls rise to 20, 40 injured
According to a local hospital official on Sunday; In Somalia’s southern city of Baidoa, the death toll from an occurrence of twin suicide bombings has risen to 20, with another 40 people having ended up injured as a result. The bombings occurred at two restaurants, earlier on Saturday evening.
Responsibility for the attack has been had been recently claimed, by a spokesman for the Islamist militant group al Shabaab, and the group’s behalf, further mentioning that the reason the two restaurants had been targeted was that the restaurants were being regularly visited by a number of government troops.
Al Shabaab’s ultimate task is to put a stop to Somalia’s Western-supported government and enforce its own rules of strict Islamic sharia law. The attack came as a retaliation to the recent United States air strikes that had targeted al Shabaab militants in Haradere.
An execution took place on Sunday, of a man accused and convicted of having been involved in the attacks; Hasan Aden Isak, a confirmed al Shabaab member. Mumin Hussein Abdullahi, the military court’s deputy prosecutor, was quoted saying to state-run Radio Mogadishu; “The Somali military court executed today Hasan Aden Isak who was an al Shabaab member and accused of being behind the October bombing.”
People gather around the wreckage of a suicide car bomb that detonated at a security checkpoint in Somalia [Sadak Mohamed/Anadolu Agency]
It’s been noted that this Sunday, 14th of October 2018, is officially an entire year since supposed al Shabaab bombings, never having been claimed back then, had killed more than 500 people in the Somalian capital of Mogadishu. On Sunday, the general manager of Baidoa city hospital; Abdifatah Hashi, told reporters that “We received 20 dead people and about 40 others injured from the twin blasts of yesterday.”
By Patryk Krych | The World Daily
