ICC Note:

Less than a week after the Al-Shabaab’s gunmen carried out an attack in a restaurant in Somalia killing 31 people, the Islamic extremist group claimed a car bomb in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. This attack killed 15, and the death toll is still rising. The Al-Shabaab group was the deadliest Islamic extremist group in Africa, killing more than 4,200 in 2016, frequently targeting Christians.

06/21/2017 Somalia  (Stars and Stripes) – At least 15 people are dead after a suicide car bomber posing as a milk delivery van detonated at a district headquarters in Somalia’s capital, police said Tuesday.

The death toll may rise, as some were badly hurt in the explosion at Wadajir district headquarters in Mogadishu, Capt. Mohamed Hussein told The Associated Press.

Most of the dead were civilians, Hussein said. Aamin Ambulance service said it had transported 18 wounded, seven of them women. Two of the eight bodies it transported were women, it said.

The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group quickly claimed responsibility for the attack via its Shahada News Agency, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist groups.

Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire said the attack targeted civilians preparing for Eid celebrations and demonstrated the extremists’ “evil-mindedness.”

At the blast scene, debris was burning and bricks and body parts were scattered among destroyed cars. One man was pulled alive from under a large stone after a wall fell on him in the explosion. Weeping women stood nearby, anxiously waiting for news about loved ones.

The blast comes less than a week after al-Shabab gunmen carried out an overnight siege on a popular restaurant in the Somali capital, killing at least 31 people.

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