Daily Monitor
Sunday July 11 2021
Medical workers arrive at the scene of a suicide car bomb attack that targeted the city’s police commissioner in Mogadishu, on July 10, 2021. PHOTO / AFP
Summary
The bomber, using an explosives-laden vehicle, struck regional police commissioner Farhan Mohamud s motorcade at a busy intersection in the capital, Somali police spokesman Sadiiq Dudishe told AFP.
The attack was claimed by the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab Islamist group, which has been fighting to topple Somalia s federal government for years and has carried out waves of attacks.
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A top Somali police chief on Saturday survived an assassination bid by Al-Shabaab militants in a powerful car bomb blast in Mogadishu that left five people dead and a trail of destruction.
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