Posted on 12/20/2020 10:39:48 AM PST by xomething
MOGADISHU: The death toll from a suicide bombing in Somalia has risen to 16, after a number of people hurt in the blast succumbed to their injuries overnight, security sources told AFP on Saturday.
Initially, six people including three senior military officials were killed on Friday when a suicide bomber attacked a stadium in the Somali city of Galkayo, ahead of the planned arrival of the country’s prime minister.
But a local security official told AFP by telephone on Saturday: “The number of people who have died in the blast increased this morning, 16 people, most of them civilians, died, according to the information we have.”
Police official Ahmed Abdiasiz said: “The location where the blast occurred was overcrowded ... so that many people who sustained serious injuries died later. Apart from the members of the army nearly 10 civilians also died in the blast.”
The militant group Al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place as a crowd waited for the arrival of Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble.
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And just think, we’ve been importing these people to the United States for 30 years. And then people wonder how Ilhan Omar was elected to Congress.
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