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At least four soldiers, including a district security chief, were killed and three others wounded in a bomb blast in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu late on Saturday night. A vehicle carrying security personnel was targeted with a remote-controlled improvised explosive device Read More …
Security forces in Mogadishu Monday arrested three Al-Shabaab suspects and seized a cache of weapons. The National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) said its Dufaan military wing unearthed the weapons which included mortar shells from a bunker operated by Al-Shabaab Read More …
An Islamist suicide bombing outside a school in Somalia’s capital killed eight people and wounded at least 23 including 13 children, the latest in a string of deadly blasts this year in a country beset by political turmoil and drought. Read More …
A prominent Somali journalist who was a critic of the al-Shabab armed group was killed by a suicide bomber as he was leaving a restaurant in the capital, Mogadishu, relatives and officials said. Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the blast, which Read More …
At least three people were killed and several wounded Tuesday evening when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a busy restaurant in Somalian capital Mogadishu’s Yaqshid district, according to a police official. Meanwhile, an intelligence officer and two bodyguards Read More …
A suicide car bomb blast has killed at least eight people at a security checkpoint near the presidential palace in the Somali capital, in an attack claimed by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group. The checkpoint falls on the route to the Read More …
An explosion from suicide bombing has killed at least 11 people Tuesday in the Somali capital, witnesses and officials said. Witnesses said a suicide bomber walked into a teashop made of corrugated tin and detonated an explosive vest. The attack Read More …
At least two people have been killed and five others wounded after a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device inside a cafe in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, police and witnesses said. The bombing on Thursday targeted a tea shop near a Read More …
A local official in the Somali capital Mogadishu was killed and several people wounded on Tuesday when a bomb blast targeted his vehicle, a police official said. “A vehicle carrying Garasbaley officials including Commissioner Mohamed Abukar Afrah was hit by Read More …
Mogadishu Police Chief, Col. Farhan Mohamud Adan, on Saturday survived after an explosion targeting his convoy occurred in Benadir junction in Mogadishu. Speaking to the media Somali Police Spokesman Sadiq Adan said the attack four people including the guards of Read More …
A suicide bombing attack by the Al-Shabaab jihadist group on a crowded tea shop in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu killed 10 people and wounded dozens, the government said Saturday. The death toll from the attack, which targeted a tea shop near Read More …
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a military training camp in the south of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, early Tuesday. Two security sources told VOA Somali that a man disguised as a military recruit detonated a suicide vest. The Read More …
Three people including a local administrator have been killed and two other people sustained injuries after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) suspected to have been on a road in Garasbaale village hit a vehicle. Witnesses said unknown attackers had set Read More …
At least six people, including two senior police officers, were killed and six others injured in a suicide bombing at a police station in Mogadishu’s Waberi district, police have confirmed. Police spokesman Sadik Aden Ali said that Ahmed Bashane, Waberi Read More …
At least three people were killed and another one was injured following a bomb attack in Somali capital on Wednesday. According to witnesses, the blast happened in in Khada district in Mogadishu after an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded on Read More …
At least five people have been killed and another one was injured in two separate blasts in Mogadishu and Baidoa town, officials and witnesses confirmed. According to sources, two people were killed and another one was injured when a police Read More …
At least six people have lost their lives and four others sustained injuries after a suicide bomber blew himself at a cafe on Saturday evening in the capital Mogadishu. In a Statement from Somali Police Spokesman, Sadiq Adan said six Read More …
At least one person was killed and several others wounded including a senior military official in a roadside bomb attack on Saturday night. Colonel Omar Abdirahman Somali National Army official was wounded in the attack and was rushed to a Read More …
At least 20 people were killed and 30 wounded by a suicide car bomb just outside a restaurant near the port in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu late on Friday. The blast sent plumes of smoke into the sky and triggered gunfire, Read More …
A car bomber has died and at least seven people wounded on Saturday after a vehicle loaded with explosives exploded in the capital Mogadishu. security forces opened fire at the vehicle loaded with explosives at Sayidka junction in the vicinity Read More …