Carnage in Somalia: At least 9 dead including children from car bomb explosions

At least nine people, including children, were killed in a twin bombing with car bombs that happened today outside the Ministry of Education in the capital Mogadishu, according to police and security sources.

He took responsibility for the alleged suicide attacks the Islamist organization Shebab.

“I was one of the first security officers to arrive in this area, I saw the bodies of nine people, mostly civilians, including women and children,” Ahmed Ali told AFP, adding that dozens of other people were injured. Another security guard, Yusuf Abdullahi, gave a different casualty account.

The German news agency, quoting police officer Mohamed Dahir, said at least 10 people had died, stressing that the death toll was likely to rise.

The two near-simultaneous blasts took place on the busy K5 road and there are “many casualties,” said Sadiq Dudis, a Somali police spokesman.

A resident of the area, Ahmed Noor, told Reuters that the first blast damaged the wall of the ministry. The second occurred when an ambulance was arriving at the scene and people had gathered to help the victims.

“The second explosion blew up our ambulance that had gone to transport the victims of the first,” said Abdiqadir Abdirahman, the founder of Amin Ambulance Service. The driver and an ambulance were injured.

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