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Monday 16 october 2017

231 killed in deadliest single attack in Somalia’s history

University attack in Kenya like this,” the Aamin Am-
in 2015 and the U.S. Embas- bulance service tweeted.
sy bombings in Kenya and Grief overwhelmed many.
Tanzania in 1998. “There’s nothing I can say.
Doctors at Mogadishu hos- We have lost everything,”
pitals struggled to assist wept Zainab Sharif, a
badly wounded victims, mother of four who lost her
many burned beyond rec- husband. She sat outside a
ognition. “This is really hor- hospital where he was pro-
rendous, unlike any other nounced dead after hours
time in the past,” said Dr. of efforts by doctors to save
Mohamed Yusuf, the direc- him. The country’s Somali-
tor of Medina hospital. American leader, Presi-
Inside, bleary-eyed nurses dent Mohamed Abdul-
transported a man whose lahi Mohamed, declared
legs had been blown off. three days of mourning
He waited as surgeons at- and joined thousands of
tended to another badly people who responded to
injured patient. Exhausted a desperate plea by hos-
doctors struggled to keep pitals to donate blood. “I
their eyes open, while am appealing all Somali
screams from victims and people to come forward
Somalis gather and search for survivors by destroyed buildings at the scene of a blast in the newly bereaved families and donate,” he said.
capital Mogadishu, Somalia Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017. A huge explosion from a truck bomb has echoed through the halls. Mogadishu, a city long
killed at least 20 people in Somalia’s capital, police said Saturday, as shaken residents called it “Nearly all of the wound- accustomed to deadly
the most powerful blast they’d heard in years. ed victims have serious bombings by al-Shabab,
(AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh) wounds,” said nurse Samir was stunned by the force
By ABDI GULED adishu a day after a truck deadliest Islamic extremist Abdi. “Unspeakable hor- of Saturday’s blast. The
Associated Press bomb targeted a crowded group, which often targets rors.” The smell of blood explosion shattered hopes
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) street near key govern- high-profile areas of the was strong. A teary-eyed of recovery in an impover-
— The most powerful bomb ment ministries, including capital, had yet to com- Hawo Yusuf looked at her ished country left fragile by
blast ever witnessed in So- foreign affairs. Many of the ment. husband’s badly burned decades of conflict, and it
malia’s capital killed at bodies in mortuaries had Al-Shabab earlier this year body. “He may die wait- again raised doubts over
least 231 people with more not yet been identified, he vowed to step up attacks ing,” she said. “We need the government’s ability to
than 275 injured, a senator said. after both the Trump ad- help.” Ambulance sirens secure the seaside city of
said Sunday, making it the As angry protesters gath- ministration and Somalia’s echoed across the city as more than 2 million people.
deadliest single attack in ered near the scene of recently elected president bewildered families wan- “They don’t care about
this Horn of Africa nation. the attack, Somalia’s gov- announced new military dered in the rubble of the lives of Somali people,
The toll could continue to ernment blamed the al- efforts against the group. buildings, looking for miss- mothers, fathers and chil-
rise. Qaida-linked al-Shabab The Mogadishu bombing ing relatives. “In our 10 year dren,” Prime Minister Has-
Abshir Abdi Ahmed cited extremist group for what is one of the deadliest at- experience as the first re- san Ali Khaire said of the
doctors at overwhelmed it called a “national di- tacks in sub-Saharan Afri- sponder in #Mogadishu, attackers. “They have tar-
hospitals he visited in Mog- saster.” However, Africa’s ca, larger than the Garissa we haven’t seen anything geted the most populated
area in Mogadishu, kill-
North Korea says needs nukes because of US threat ing only civilians.” Rescue
workers searched for sur-
MOSCOW (AP) — A high- gram is for deterrence. St. Petersburg, Russia. nuclear programs are nu- vivors trapped under the
ranking North Korean of- The deputy chairman of “Our country is being clear deterrence programs rubble of the largely de-
ficial says the country’s the parliament of the Dem- threatened, the very ex- aimed at protecting our stroyed Safari Hotel, which
development of nuclear ocratic People’s Republic istence of the DPRK is at independence; we have is close to Somalia’s foreign
weapons is necessary be- of Korea, Ahn Dong Chun, stake,” he said, referring no choice but to develop ministry. The explosion blew
cause of the threat posed made the comments Sun- to statements by President our nuclear programs,” he off metal gates and blast
by the United States and day at an assembly of the Donald Trump at the UN said, according to Russian walls erected outside the
contends the nuclear pro- Inter-Parliamentary Union in General Assembly. “Our state news agency Tass.q hotel. q