In a suicide bombing at an army recruitment center in Mogadishu, the country’s capital, several people have been reported dead.
At least 10 people were killed when the attacker allegedly targeted a group of young recruits outside the Damanyo base on Sunday, according to witnesses who reportedly spoke to Reuters.
The suicide bomber allegedly detonated the explosives as teenagers gathered at the base’s gate.
Abdisalan Mohamed claimed to have witnessed “hundreds of teenagers at the gate as we passed by in a bus.”
A loud explosion abounded abruptly, and the region was covered in dense smoke. We couldn’t see the details of the casualties, he continued.
Suleiman, a military captain, described the attack as he had witnessed it unfold.
“I was facing the road’s other side.” A speeding tuk-tuk stopped, a man jumped into the queue, and then blew himself up. I witnessed the deaths of ten people, including recruits and passing members. He told Reuters, “The death toll may rise.”
At the scene, the suicide bomber’s remains and dozens of abandoned shoes could be seen.
Six of the injured victims of the explosion passed away right away, according to medical staff at the military hospital.
A separate official told the Anadolu news agency that at least 11 people had been killed in the attack.
The area has been fenced off by the government.
No one was immediately bailed out, but the attack echoed a 2023 suicide bombing that claimed the lives of 25 soldiers at the Jale Siyad base directly opposite the Damanyo facility.
In response to local reports of the al-Shabab armed group’s infiltration into the government and security forces, Colonel Abdirahmaan Hujaale, commander of Battalion 26, was killed on Saturday in the Hiiran region.
Source: Aljazeera
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