{"id":2024,"date":"2017-02-19T21:27:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T21:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2017-06-30T21:28:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T21:28:42","slug":"suicide-bomber-kills-dozens-at-market-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/suicide-bomber-kills-dozens-at-market-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide bomber kills dozens at market in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Blast in Mogadishu comes less than a fortnight after election of new president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n

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A car bomb ripped through a market in Mogadishu on Sunday, killing at least 39 people and injuring about 50.<\/p>\n

The car was driven by a suicide bomber, said Ahmed Abdulle Afrax, the mayor of Wadajir district, where the bombing happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe carried 39 dead bodies and there were many others injured,\u201d Dr Abdikadir Abdirahman, director of the Aamin Ambulance Service, told Reuters.<\/p>\n

Dr Mohamed Yusuf, the manager of the Madina hospital, said they received 47 injured people.<\/p>\n

A witness, Abdulle Omar, said the market was destroyed: \u201cI was staying in my shop when a car came into the market and exploded. I saw more than 20 people lying on the ground. Most of them were dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Al-Shabaab, the Islamist insurgent group that is fighting the UN-backed Somali government, did not immediately claim responsibility.<\/p>\n

Al-Shabaab has been able to carry out increasingly deadly attacks despite losing most of its territory to African Union peacekeepers supporting the Somali government.<\/p>\n

This month Somalia elected a new president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, a dual US-Somali citizen and former prime minister.<\/p>\n

The attack underlines the challenge facing Mohamed, who has inherited an administration with limited control over Somali territory due to the presence of al-Shabaab, and is heavily propped up by the international community.<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s inauguration takes place on Wednesday, although he officially took office this week at a ceremony marred by a series of mortar strikes near the presidential palacethat left two children dead.<\/p>\n

African Union troops drove al-Shabaab militants out of Mogadishu in August 2011 but the fighters continue to control rural areas and launch repeated attacks in the capital.<\/p>\n

Civil war has riven Somalia since 1991. Aid agencies warn that a severe drought has placed large swaths of the country at risk of famine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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