MOGADISHU — An Al-Shabaab suicide bomber and gunmen attacked a busy beach in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, killing at least 32 people and wounding scores more, in one of the deadliest attacks in the East African nation in months, police said on Saturday.
MOGADISHU — An Al-Shabaab suicide bomber and gunmen attacked a busy beach in Somalia's capital Mogadishu , killing at least 32 people and wounding scores more, in one of the deadliest attacks in the East African nation in months, police said on Saturday.The Al-Qaida-linked jihadists have been waging an insurgency against the country's internationally backed federal government for more than 17 years and have previously targeted the Lido beach area, popular with businessmen and officials.
Officer Mohamed Omar told AFP they had 'shot civilians randomly.'He said security forces had ended the attack and killed five gunmen, while a sixth member of the group 'blew himself the beach.'Witnesses said there were many people at the popular location when the explosion occurred, describing how gunmen then stormed the area.'Everybody was panicked, and it was hard to know what was happening because shooting started soon after the blast,' witness Abdilatif Ali told AFP.
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