At least nine people were killed and several others were injured in simultaneous car bombings in central Somalia on Wednesday (January 4). Speaking to news agency AFP, Abdullahi Adan, a local security official said that terrorists attacked the Mahasa district on Wednesday morning using vehicles loaded with explosives.
At least four people were killed in an ongoing attack by Al-Shabaab militants who laid siege to a popular hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu overnight, a security agency official told AFP on Monday.
Police say two car bombs have exploded at a busy junction in Somalia’s capital near key government offices and there are “scores" of civilian casualties including children. Saturday s attack comes