Somalia: double attack in Mogadishu

Security personnel and ambulances are parked near destroyed and damaged buildings after a car bomb attack targeted the education ministry in Mogadishu on October 29, 2022. Two massive car bomb attacks rocked the ministry Somalia for Education in the capital Mogadishu.

AFP - HASSAN ALI ELMI

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In Somalia, a new deadly attack hit Mogadishu on Saturday 28 October.

According to the latest official report, nine people, including women and children, but also a young local journalist, were killed in a double car bomb attack on a busy avenue in the capital.

The emergency services also counted several dozen injured.

The attack was attributed, once again, to the jihadist group of Shebabs.

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This is the usual modus operandi of the shebabs: first a car loaded with explosives which opens the way and does the first damage, then a second which explodes in the same place a few minutes later.

This was told once again by witnesses to this Saturday's double attack, which occurred at the entrance and along a wall alongside the Ministry of Education, in the area called " K5” in Mogadishu, or the “Zobé” crossroads.

It was there that in October 2017, the Shebabs committed the deadliest attack ever in Africa, killing more than 500 civilians with a truck bomb.

A commemorative plaque had been placed there, to salute the memory of the victims of this attack which permanently traumatized Somalia.

This attack comes after several months of "total war" decreed by the new president Hassan Cheikh Mohamoud against the jihadist group.

A military, but also economic, local and spiritual "total war", the new government striving to cut off the Shebabs from their financial resources, but also from their clan affiliations in the countryside, and from their religious arguments, by obtaining, through example today, at a conference, the public support of respected Islamic personalities.

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