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At Least 6 People Killed, 13 Others Wounded In Bomb Blast In Somalia's Capital - Reports
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published December 22, 2018 | 02:27 PM
A bomb blast in Somalia's capital of Mogadishu claimed the lives of at least six people and caused injuries to 13 others, local media reported on Saturday.
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 22nd December, 2018) A bomb blast in Somalia's capital of Mogadishu claimed the lives of at least six people and caused injuries to 13 others, local media reported on Saturday.
A car packed with explosives exploded not far from the National Theater of Somalia situated in the heart of the country's capital, according to Radio Dalsan.
The Russian Embassy in Djibouti, which represents Russia in Somalia, told Sputnik that there were no Russians among the victims.
"According to the information available to the Russian Embassy in Djibouti, there are no Russian citizens among the terrorist attack's victims.
We have called people residing in Mogadishu," the embassy said.
The broadcaster then reported that another "huge explosion" was heard in the Somalian capital.
Somalia has been engulfed in violence since the eruption of a civil war between clan-based armed factions in the early 1990s. Al-Shabaab militants, who have sworn allegiance to the al-Qaeda terror group (banned in Russia), are staging numerous attacks across the country in an attempt to impose a radical version of Sharia law.
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