The attacks killed over 500 people according to official records. It has been tagged the deadliest attack in a country that is beset by onslaughts from Al-Shabaab insurgents.The convict, Hassan Aden Isak, according to the court was driving a truck intended to be used in a second bombing on the day. A second person was also handed a similar sentence for his role in the incident. The court sentenced Ibrahim Hassan Absuge in absentia. He is believed to have brought the truck that subsequently detonated.
“Absuge was also owner of a second truck that was detonated at a vegetable market in Mogadishu’s Wabari district on Nov. 26, 2016 that killed 20, ” A Voice of America journalist Harun Maruf added.
The attack drew global condemnation and upped the tempo on the need to defeat terrorism in the Horn of Africa region. President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed .visited neighbouring Ethiopia, Uganda and Djibouti to solicit support in the fight against terrorism.