Somalia appeals for international help after deadly blasts
Mogadishu, Somalia (AFP):
Somalia’s president has issued an urgent plea for international help for wounded victims of devastating car bombings at the weekend that claimed the lives of 100 people.
Bulldozers were still clearing the blast site in the capital Mogadishu on Monday.
Saturday’s attack, which also wounded more than 300 people, was claimed by the Al-Shabaab and was the deadliest in the fragile Horn of Africa nation in five years.
“We appeal for the international community, Somali brothers, and other Muslim brothers and or partners to send doctors to Somalia to help the hospitals treat the wounded people,” President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said in a statement on Sunday.
He warned that the death toll could rise, as ill-equipped hospitals were swamped.
Somalia has been mired in chaos since the fall of president Siad Barre’s military regime in 1991 and has one of the world’s weakest health systems after decades of conflict.
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