Somali Islamists claim deadly car bomb day after key advance
- Published: 18 Mar 2013 at 17.49
- Online news: World
At least ten people were killed Monday in a suicide car bomb in the Somali capital claimed by Islamist insurgents, in one of the bloodiest attacks in war-ravaged Mogadishu in recent months.
A minibus burns at the site of a car bomb in central Mogadishu on March 18, 2013. At least ten people were killed Monday in a suicide car bomb in the Somali capital claimed by Islamist insurgents, in one of the bloodiest attacks in war-ravaged Mogadishu in recent months.
The attack comes a day after the Shebab insurgents retook the key town of Hudur in Somalia's southwest after Ethiopian troops who had held it since 2011 left, sparking concerns of a wider withdrawal that would leave peacekeeping forces overstretched.
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