At least 18 killed in suicide truck bombing in Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least 18 people, including 10 security personnel, were killed and more than 40 others wounded in a suicide bombing in central Somalia, police said late Saturday.
Police spokesman Sadik Aden Ali Doodishe told Anadolu a truck full of explosives exploded at a security checkpoint in Beledwayne, killing 18 people, including seven police officers.
“The car exploded at a security checkpoint,” he said.
Doodishe added mainly civilians were hurt and were rushed to hospitals.
Fardowso Ahmed, a resident in the Nur-hawad neighborhood, told Anadolu the explosion was one of the biggest the city had ever seen and reduced dozens of shops and residential units to rubble.
Beledwayne is the provincial capital of the central province of Hiran, located 341 kilometers (211 miles) from the nation’s capital of Mogadishu.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack but former Hirshabele state President Mohamed Abdi Ware suggested that al-Shabaab was behind it.
These are “the actions of a detestable and vile group in its last days. We condemn it in the strongest possible terms,” he wrote on X.
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