Asl Shabaab Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/asl-shabaab/ The low down on African affairs Fri, 27 Dec 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Asl Shabaab Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/asl-shabaab/ 32 32 Somali rush-hour truck bomb kills 76 https://jjcornish.com/2019/12/somali-rush-hour-truck-bomb-kills-76/ Fri, 27 Dec 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/12/somali-rush-hour-truck-bomb-kills-76/ A rush-hour truck bomb has killed at least 76 people in the Somali capital. The death toll from the Mogadishu blast is expected to rise. No one has claimed responsibility for the vehicle explosion that appeared to have targeted  a tax collection centre near a military checkpoint in Mogadishu. The area has beenhit several times […]

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]]> A rush-hour truck bomb has killed at least 76 people in the Somali capital.

The death toll from the Mogadishu blast is expected to rise.

No one has claimed responsibility for the vehicle explosion that appeared to have targeted  a tax collection centre near a military checkpoint in Mogadishu.

The area has beenhit several times by jihadi group Al Shabaab.

The Islamist terror organisations was driven from the Somali capital eight years ago but has managed to return to stage indiscriminate acts of terror in Mogadishu and other urban areas.

Today’s victims include a number of children.

Among the dead in one of the deadliest attacks in Mogadishu in recent years is a busload of university students going to classes.

 

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