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MOGADISHU—A suicide car bomb struck a local government office in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Sunday, Sep. 2, police said, destroying the building and a school opposite.
Police said a suicide car bomb targeted a government office on Sunday, Sep. 2. in Mogadishu, Somalia. Google maps
Ambulances took casualties to hospitals as people searched through the rubble for survivors, a Reuters witness said. The blast also blew off the roof of a mosque and damaged houses nearby.
Emergency services work at the site of a blast in Mogadishu, Somalia, September 2, 2018 in this still image obtained from a social media video. Munasar Mohamed/via Reuters
“A suicide car bomb (rammed) into the district office of Hawlwadag in Mogadishu. It is too early to know casualties,” Abdullahi Hussein, a police officer, told Reuters.
People look at debris at the site of a blast in Mogadishu, Somalia, September 2, 2018 in this still image obtained from a social media video. Munasar Mohamed/via Reuters
A Reuters journalist on the scene saw a human hand and blood stains in the rubble.
Smoke rises from the site of a blast in Mogadishu, Somalia, September 2, 2018 in this still image obtained from a social media video. Munasar Mohamed/via Reuters
Somalia has been convulsed by lawlessness and violence since 1991. Islamist group Al Shabaab is fighting to dislodge a Western-backed government protected by African Union-mandated peacekeepers.
