Blast in Somalia kills 34 in Mogadishu marketplace
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia’s new president visited victims wounded by the Mogadishu car bomb that on Sunday killed 34. President Mohamed Abdulahi Mohamed offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of those who planned the blast.
The explosion hit a busy marketplace in the western part of the capital, said police Capt. Mohamed Hussein.
“It was a horrific and barbaric attack only aimed at killings civilians,” he said from the scene of the blast.
Sabriye Abdullahi, an ambulance driver told The Associated Press that some of the injured victims died on their way to the hospitals.