More than 70 killed in Mogadishu car bomb carnage | Bangkok Post: breakingnews

A car bomb tore through a government compound in Mogadishu Tuesday, killing more than 70 people in the deadliest attack by Somalia's Shebab rebels in their near five-year insurgency.

People mill around the scene where a suicide attack took place in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. A car bomb ripped through a government compound in Mogadishu Tuesday, killing at least 70 in the deadliest attack by Somalia's Shebab since they launched their insurgency almost five years ago.

Witnesses described the carnage as the worst they had seen in Mogadishu since Somalia plunged into chaos two decades ago and said the devastation resembled scenes from World War II.