MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) Jan.4 – Two suicide bombers who targeted military installations in an area at the center of government attacks against al-Shabaab militants killed at least 10 people early Wednesday morning, Somali police said. said.
The attack occurred in the Mahas district of the Hiran region after morning prayers. “It was loud and could be heard all over the city,” resident Osman Abdullahi told The Associated Press. He “rescued several people, including soldiers wounded in the attack and journalists embedded in the soldiers.”
Police officer Mahad Abdul told the Associated Press that the vehicle exploded in an area full of civilians, killing at least 10 people.
Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack. Mahas is at the center of the government’s ongoing offensive against al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda-linked group of thousands of fighters that has controlled parts of central and southern Somalia for years. I vowed to beat him.
The Somali army, along with local militias, recently opened an important supply route to Mahas after it had been under a long siege.
