At least 25 killed in car bomb attack in Mogadishu

• Somalia The worst luck country on the planet

At least 25 people died and 45 more were injured this Saturday in a car bomb attack in

the capital of

the spokesman for the Somali Police,

confirmed to EFE, warning that the count of victims is still in grade.

Dodishe explained that the objective of the attack was to attack President

Prime Minister

and the leaders of the five federal states of Somalia, who were meeting at a high-level conference at the

1.5 kilometers away .

of the place where the two explosions occurred.

According to the same source, the assailants were unable to reach the target and attacked the

located at the busy

causing a large number of civilian casualties.

The attack was claimed by the Somali jihadist group

which threatened to continue with this type of attack in government areas.

"Today's cruel and cowardly terrorist attack against innocent people by the morally bankrupt and criminal Al Shabab group cannot discourage us, but will further strengthen our resolve to defeat them once and for all," the Somali president said.

The attack was also condemned by the Somali Prime Minister, the

among others.

Currently the situation is returning to normal, while hospitals are working to rescue and help the victims of the attack.

In a statement to the press, the Somali police spokesman said that women and children were among the dead.

According to police sources cited by local media and the

photojournalist and a

collaborator .

The national meeting between the central government and the presidents of the five federal states of Somalia was being held in Mogadishu with the aim of promoting peaceful coexistence and discussing the jihadist threat.

587 dead in the same place

In October 2017, 587 people died at the same Zoobe intersection after a truck bomb attack, in what was the worst attack in memory in the Somali capital.

The president of Somalia declared on August 23 a "total war" to "eliminate" Al Shabab, whose terrorists took over a well-known hotel in Mogadishu for thirty hours days before and killed 21 people.

Since then, several US-backed military operations have been carried out against the fundamentalists, which last September killed "more than a hundred members" of the jihadist group, according to the Somali government.

network since 2012 ,

often perpetrates terrorist attacks in the Somali capital and other parts of Somalia to overthrow the central government - backed by the international community - and establish by force a Wahhabi-style Islamic State (ultraconservative).

The jihadist group controls rural areas of central and southern Somalia and also attacks neighboring countries such as

Somalia has lived in a state of war and chaos since 1991, when dictator

leaving the country without an effective government and in the hands of Islamist militias and warlords.

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