Car Bomb Kills at Least 6 and Injures 13 Others in Mogadishu<br />By HUSSEIN MOHAMED and MOHAMED IBRAHIMJULY 30, 2017<br />MOGADISHU, Somalia — A car bomb exploded near a police station in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, on Sunday, killing at least six people<br />and wounding at least 13 others, according to a police captain.<br />#Somalia..#BREAKING pic.twitter.com/NpZMjSHlDu Abdifitah Omar Halane, an official in the Banadir region, where the blast near the police station occurred, said at least four people had been killed and six others wounded,<br />but local media reports and witnesses said the death toll was much higher.<br />After the attack on the African Union peacekeeping troops on Sunday, near the villages of Danow and Golweyn, a spokesman for the Shabab was quoted by the Shabab media arm as saying<br />that 39 Ugandan soldiers had been killed and that ammunition had been seized.<br />The explosion came on the same day that fighters from the Shabab terrorist group launched a<br />deadly attack on a convoy of Ugandan soldiers with the African Union in southern Somalia.<br />Mohamed Hussein said the explosion near Waberi police station along the busy Maka Almukarramah road might have been the work of a suicide bomber.<br />Abdi Ali Shire, a Somali media trainer who was about 100 yards away from the explosion, said the bomb went off in front of the Midnimo Supermarket among dozens of vehicles<br />that were lined up, and some cars driving on the road.
