Mogadishu: 100 people have lost their lives in two car bombings in Mogadishu, the capital of the Islamic country Somalia. At the same time, many people are said to be seriously injured, due to which the number of dead is likely to increase. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamed said at the scene in the early hours of Sunday (October 30) that around 300 people were injured in the blasts. He has described these attacks as extremely cruel and cowardly acts.

So far, no terrorist organization has claimed responsibility for these attacks. However, the Somali government has blamed the attacks on the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab terror group, which has been carrying out frequent attacks in the capital. The attacks in Mogadishu came on a day when the president, prime minister and other senior officials were meeting to discuss expanded efforts to combat terrorist groups, including al-Shabaab.

Officials have informed that the first blast took place outside the boundary wall of the Ministry of Education, while the second blast targeted a busy restaurant. Abdulkadir Adan, the director of the ambulance service, said in a tweet, 'An ambulance that helped those injured in the first attack was also destroyed by the second explosion.' Abdirzak Hassan, an eyewitness, has told that when the second blast happened, he was 100 meters away. I could not count the dead bodies lying on the ground. There was the sound of people screaming and shouting. Many injured people were pleading for help. Let us tell you that in October 2017, 500 people were killed in a truck bomb blast at the same place. It is the deadliest in the area since that attack.

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