Security officers at the scene of the suicide car bomb, which hit a market in southern Mogadishu. Photo Credit: AP
A suspected car bomb on Saturday killed at least eleven people and injured 16 others when it exploded at a police checkpoint next to a market in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
The BBC reports that the blast hit a market in the Waberi area, while President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was visiting a nearby university.
Reuters quoted police officer, Major Mohamed Hussein saying “The blast scene was at a police checkpoint near the vegetable market in Waberi district’.
The police officer added that the dead included police and civilian casualties. Ambulance workers say the death toll could rise substantially.
A witness, Abdulahi Osman told the BBC “There was chaos and severed dead bodies strewn around the street,”.
The is no immediate claim of responsibility by the Somali Islamist group al Shabaab but the group is known for often carrying out such attacks.
Source: Africafeeds.com
