{"id":21989,"date":"2015-12-20T02:27:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T02:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/somalia-three-killed-in-car-bomb-blast-in\/"},"modified":"2015-12-20T02:27:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T02:27:00","slug":"somalia-three-killed-in-car-bomb-blast-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/somalia-three-killed-in-car-bomb-blast-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia: Three killed in car bomb blast in Mogadishu"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Three people have been killed in a gun and bomb attack in the Somali capital Mogadishu.}<\/p>\n

Witnesses told the BBC that gunmen opened fire and detonated the bomb on a busy main road.<\/p>\n

Many others were injured, most of them civilians.<\/p>\n

It is not clear who was behind the blast, but the Islamist militant group al-Shabab has carried out several attacks on the same road in the past few weeks. <\/p>\n

Witnesses said Saturday’s attack began when gunmen opened fire on a Somali government official’s car, sparking a gun battle with his security escort.<\/p>\n

“There was a drive-by shooting attack… then a car loaded with explosives was detonated after police reinforcements arrived,” a police official told AFP.<\/p>\n

“The gunmen riding in a car attacked the official and there was [an] exchange of gunfire… then there was a huge blast,” said Abdi Mudey, who was near the scene.<\/p>\n

Witnesses described seeing part of a supermarket and several cars destroyed by the blast.<\/p>\n

Husayn Ali Wehliye, a regional governor, escaped with minor injuries, local media reported.<\/p>\n

Al-Shabab ruled much of Somalia until 2011, when it was driven out of Mogadishu by African and Somali troops. <\/p>\n

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Source:BBC:Somalia: [Three killed in car bomb blast in Mogadishu->http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-35140858]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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