- Title: Turkey evacuates wounded after deadly Mogadishu blast
- Date: 29th December 2019
- Summary: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA (DECEMBER 29, 2019) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VARIOUS OF BLAST VICTIMS BEING WHEELED OUT OF HOSPITAL VARIOUS OF A GIRL LYING ON A STRETCHER WAITING TO BE LOADED ONTO AN AMBULANCE VARIOUS OF WOUNDED BLAST VICTIM INSIDE AN AMBULANCE BLAST VICTIM BEING LOADED INTO AMBULANCE VARIOUS OF COFFINS OF TURKISH BLAST VICTIMS INSIDE AMBULANCE AMBULANCES PARKED NEAR HOSPITAL PEOPLE STANDING OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL SIGNAGE ON THE HOSPITAL WALL READING 'RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN HOSPITAL- HASTANESI - ISBITAAL' VARIOUS OF AMBULANCES LEAVING IN A CONVOY (SOUNDBITE) (Somali) WOUNDED VICTIM'S BROTHER, ABUKAR ABDULAH MOHAMED, SAYING: "I will travel with my wounded sister Maryamo Abdulahi Mohamed to Turkey as she was seriously wounded in the blast yesterday and I pray for all people who are wounded in the blast to give them good health." AMBULANCES PARKED NEXT TO A TURKISH AIR FORCE PLANE PATIENT BEING CARRIED INTO THE PLANE VARIOUS OF A PATIENT BEING WHEELED OUT OF AN AMBULANCE (SOUNDBITE) (Somali) SOMALI MINISTER FOR INTERNAL SECURITY, ABUKAR ISLOW, SAYING: "I send my condolences to the Somali and Turkish people who lost their loved ones in the blast, and to the 16 people and two bodies of Turkish engineers flying to Turkey and we hope that the wounded get well quick." VARIOUS OF TURKISH NATIONALS NEXT TO COFFINS OF TURKISH VICTIMS VARIOUS OF TURKISH AIR FORCE PLANE
- Embargoed: 12th January 2020 15:51
- Keywords: Abukar Islow Afgoye Mogadishu Somalia Turkey evacuees blast bomb
- Location: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
- City: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
- Country: Somalia
- Topics: Bombing (non-military),Conflicts/War/Peace,Editors' Choice
- Reuters ID: LVA001BC13GP3
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: A Turkish military cargo plane landed in the Somali capital on Sunday (December 29) to evacuate people badly wounded in a devastating truck bombing that killed at least 90 people including two Turkish nationals.
Abukar Islow, Somali Minister for Internal Security, said that 16 people as well as the bodies of two Turkish victims of the attack were being flown to Turkey.
Since a 2011 famine in Somalia, Turkey has been a leading aid provider to the country as Ankara seeks to boost its influence in the strategic Horn of Africa in competition with Gulf rivals like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Saturday's blast, at a busy checkpoint during rush hour in Mogadishu, was the deadliest in war-torn Somalia in more than two years. No-one immediately claimed responsibility, although authorities blamed al Qaeda-linked Islamist group al Shabaab.
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