At least four people killed and another ten wounded when a car bomb exploded close to Somalia's parliament in Mogadishu
People gather at the site where a car bomb exploded near the parliament in Mogadishu, Somalia, on January 8, 2020.
Militant group Al Shabab claimed the attack, after a spike in activity in recent days by the Al Qaeda linked group which has seen it inflict mass casualties in Somalia and attack a US military base in Kenya. "I saw the dead bodies of several people some of them killed by shrapnel inside their vehicles. There was chaos... and ambulances reached the scene soon after the blast, " he said."Thank god, I was a distance away but I saw the smoke and several vehicles caught on fire," he said.
The attack hit a busy checkpoint in the southwest of the city, leaving vehicles charred and twisted at a crossroads in the deadliest assault in two years in the Horn of Africa country.Al Shabab has also managed to expand its network in the region, especially in Kenya which has suffered several devastating attacks in retaliation for it sending troops into Somalia in 2011.
On Tuesday, Al Shabab tried to target a telecommunication mast in Garissa, near Kenya's Somali border.
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