At least 100 people were killed when two car bombs went off at Somalia\u2019s education ministry, close to a busy market intersection on Saturday. <\/p>\n
No fewer than 300 were also injured in the explosion, president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud disclosed on Sunday. <\/p>\n
He, however, said that the death toll could rise.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe ask our international partners and Muslims around the world to send their medical doctors here since we can\u2019t send all the victims outside the country for treatment,\u201d Mohamud said on Sunday after visiting the scene.<\/p>\n
The bombing came days after Somali officials announced gains by government troops in a key strategic stronghold held by the Al Shabaab south of Mogadishu.<\/p>\n
Al Qaeda-linked Islamist group, Al Shabaab, claimed responsibility for the deadliest bomb attack when a truck bomb exploded at the same intersection in October 2017, killing more than 500 people.<\/p>\n
In August, Mr Mohamud pledged a \u201ctotal war\u201d against Al-Shabaab after it attacked a hotel in Mogadishu, killing 23 people.<\/p>\n
Reuters reports that the terrorist group accused the ministry of being complicit in the \u201cwar on minds\u201d, as Somali\u2019s education systems teach children using a Christian-based syllabus.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese senseless attacks against innocent civilians including women and children only serve to remind us of the group\u2019s barbarity towards its own people and reveal the true hypocrisy of its intent,\u201d the European Union\u2019s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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