MOGADISHU: At least seven people were killed yesterday, among them a prominent Somali official, in a bomb attack in the centre of the Somali capital Mogadishu, police and security officials said.
Security sources said they believed a bomb was attached to a car being driven by Abdikafi Hilowle, a police official and former secretary for the city’s administration, and detonated remotely. Other officials said the blast may have been from a roadside bomb.
The attack took place near the busy KM4 junction in central Mogadishu, close to the Turkish embassy. “Several people have been killed, there are at least seven, including four civilians and three policemen,” police officer Mohammed Duale said at the scene.
“It was apparently targeting a former official who died in the attack, some of his security guards were also among the dead,” added Abdi Osmail, a Somali security official said.AFP
