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BREAKING: Over 100 killed in car bomb blast

No fewer than 100 people, including women and children have been killed in a twin car bomb explosions near a busy junction in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu.

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said among the victims “who were massacred [were] mothers with their children in their arms”, the AFP news agency quotes the president as saying.

He appealed for international medical help to deal with the 300 injured.

The president blamed the al-Shabab militant group for Saturday’s attack which targeted the education ministry.

 

James Ewaoche Amedu

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