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Somalia: Seven killed in Mogadishu blast
26 Jan 26, 2010 - 3:24:12 AM
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At least seven people have been killed and 11 others injured in a bomb blast that targeted a clinic operated with African Union base in Somalia’s restive capital Mogadishu.
The blast occurred on Monday night at Halane clinic located near the entrance of Mogadishu’s main airport, which also serves as the AU peacekeeping mission headquarters,.
According to witnesses, a suicide bomber reportedly wearing explosive jacket disguised himself as one of the patient on the cue and blew himself up, killing most of the other patients.
"The blast occurred unexpectedly in the cue, every thing turned into messy and we became rowdy. I saw some people laying on the ground with some screaming for help,” said one of the survivors.
Somalia’s Al-Shabaab insurgent group claimed responsibility for the attack.
“We killed some of the senior medical officers and soldiers in the mercenary base ... it is part of our retaliation attack against the occupiers’ massacre of our people,” al-Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mahamoud Rage was quoted in reports
However, AU troops’ spokesman Major Barigye Bahuko only confirmed the injuries of three soldiers.
'Three soldiers sustained minor injuries while several other Somalis were killed and wounded,' he said, adding that the blast was coward gesture which can’t stop the peacekeeping force from carrying out its operations.
This is the second blast targeted on AMISOM base which Al-Shabaab, which is waging war against the foreign troops and Somali government has claimed responsibility.
In September, a twin suicide bombs struck the Au headquarters in Mogadishu, killing at least 17 people, mostly of them AU soldiers including deputy force commander.
GAROWE ONLINE
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