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Including 8 soldiers, also wounded in attack targeting district commissioner.
At least Seven people were killed and eight wounded, including soldiers, Tuesday when a car bomb blasts targeted an official in the Somali capital Mogadishu, officials told Somali Times. The bomb attack went off near the Sinka Dher intersection in Mogadishu.
“The Al-Shabaab terrorist group targeted the Kahda district commissioner with a car bomb blasts killing seven people and wounding eight others, including soldiers and the Kahda district spy chief,” Abdifatah Hassan, a police captain in Mogadishu, told Somali Times.
A Somali government spokesman, said the attack came after a suspected al-Shabaab gunman shot dead Ibrahim Alow, an administrator in Kahda, and Fadumo Matan, a member of a COVID-19 awareness team. “The bomb attack took place when the district commissioner and other officials reached the crime scene,” he said, adding that investigations are underway.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.