Mogadishu attacks: Death toll rises to 300

Monitoring Desk

MOGADISHU: The death toll reached to 300 from twin bomb explosions in Mogadishu, as the friends and relatives were searching their love one in hospitals after a deadliest attack in a decade.

The twin bomb explosions were occurred in two busy junctions in the heart of the city on Saturday but still no organization claimed the responsibility till Monday morning.

Abdikadir Abdirahman, the director of the city’s ambulance service told international media on Monday that we have confirmed 300 people died in the attack and feared that the death toll may be higher because some people are still missing.

Aden Nur, a doctor at the city’s Madina hospital, said that as many as 160 of the bodies could not be recognized, they were buried by the government yesterday. The others were buried by their relatives. Over a hundred injured were also brought to hospital.

Saturday bomb attacks were the deadliest since militant group al Shabaab began an insurgency in 2007.

The militants were driven out of Mogadishu in 2011 and have been steadily losing territory since then to the combined forces of AU peacekeepers and Somali security forces.