Suicide car bomb rocks Somali capital - police

Record ID: 84136

  • Title: Suicide car bomb rocks Somali capital - police
  • Date: 23rd October 2016
  • Summary: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA (OCTOBER 23, 2016) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SHOTS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VARIOUS OF POLICE LOOKING AT WRECKAGE VARIOUS OF VEHICLE USED BY SUICIDE BOMBER VARIOUS OF CAR WRECKAGE AT SCENE VARIOUS OF POLICE AT SCENE WRECKAGE AT SCENE (SOUNDBITE) (Somali) BONDEERE DISTRICT COMMISSIONER, QASIM ABDULAH HASSAN, SAYING: "Tonight's suicide bomb exploded near a displaced people's camp and some of the displaced were killed while others were injured by the blast." VARIOUS OF POLICE AT SCENE
  • Embargoed: 7th November 2016 18:17
  • Keywords: Somalia Mogadishu suicide car bomb
  • Location: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
  • City: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
  • Country: Somalia
  • Reuters ID: LVA0015586P1J
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:At least three people died and two others were injured in the Somali capital Mogadishu when a car exploded near a camp for displaced people on Sunday (October 23).
    The blast was in Mogadishu's Bondeere district, near a site where hundreds of people displaced by fighting elsewhere in the country are being temporarily sheltered.
    There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the al Shabaab militant group has carried out a series of deadly attacks in Somalia.
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