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muriel_volestrangler

(105,498 posts) Sun Oct 30, 2022, 06:54 AM Oct 2022

Somalia Mogadishu bombings: Twin blasts kill 100 in capital

Source: BBC

Twin car bomb explosions near a busy junction in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, killed at least 100 people, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud says.

Among the victims "who were massacred [were] mothers with their children in their arms", the AFP news agency quotes the president as saying.

He appealed for international medical help to deal with the 300 injured.

The president blamed the al-Shabab militant group for Saturday's attack which targeted the education ministry.

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-63445415

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Somalia Mogadishu bombings: Twin blasts kill 100 in capital (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Oct 2022 OP

K&R! nt Carlitos Brigante Oct 2022 #1

K & R Stuart G Oct 2022 #2

Always brings me back to my former student who was killed in a bomb blast about 4 years ago in JCMach1 Oct 2022 #3

Carlitos Brigante

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1. K&R! nt

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Sun Oct 30, 2022, 11:03 AM

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Stuart G

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2. K & R

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Sun Oct 30, 2022, 11:19 AM

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JCMach1

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3. Always brings me back to my former student who was killed in a bomb blast about 4 years ago in

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Sun Oct 30, 2022, 11:42 PM

Oct 2022

Mogadishu...

Wonderful, wonderful young man from a wealthy family who had resettled in Dubai. He had gone back to his homeland and was building an NGO to help his country.

I can tell you 1000% straight up f#$k Al Shabab.

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