{"id":31761,"date":"2019-02-04T13:23:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T13:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31761"},"modified":"2019-02-04T13:23:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T13:23:18","slug":"car-bomb-attack-in-somalias-mogadishu-kills-at-least-11-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31761","title":{"rendered":"Car bomb attack in Somalia&#8217;s Mogadishu kills at least 11 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"92.4236619718\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">A powerful car bomb has exploded\u00a0at a shopping mall in the Somali capital Mogadishu, killing at least 11 people, security officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Police officer\u00a0Mohamed Hussein\u00a0said 10 people were also injured in Monday&#8217;s blast in an explosives-laden car parked near a mall close to Mogadishu&#8217;s local government offices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;Several dead people were removed from a wrecked building at the blast scene. So far death toll is 11 civilians and 10 others injured,&#8221; Hussein told Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Another security official, Ahmed Moalin Ali said some of the victims died in a building that collapsed as a result of the blast in\u00a0<span>Hamarweyne market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The blast occurred close to Mogadishu mall and it has caused death and destruction&#8230;&#8221; police officer Ali said. &#8220;The terrorists parked a vehicle loaded with explosives in the vicinity of the mall to kill the innocent civilians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw the dead bodies of four people recovered from the debris of a collapsed building and three others were strewn dead outside after the blast had blown them,&#8221; said shopper Munira Abdukadir.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was not far away from the blast location, but I was lucky to have survived, several people were wounded and some were screaming before the ambulances arrived,&#8221; said another witness, Abdulahi Mohamed.<\/p>\n<p>While there was no immediate claim of responsibility, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/al-shabab.html\">al-Shabab<\/a>\u00a0armed group has regularly carried out such attacks in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The group&#8217;s stated aim is to remove the Western-backed central government and establish its own rule based on a strict interpretation of Islamic law.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate incident, local security officials said the armed group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/02\/gunmen-kill-head-dubai-owned-port-operation-somalia-190204084901401.html\">killed the Maltese manager<\/a> of Bossasso port in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/somalia.html\">Somalia<\/a>&#8216;s semi-autonomous Puntland state on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful car bomb has exploded\u00a0at a shopping mall in the Somali capital Mogadishu, killing at least 11 people, security officials said. 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