MOGADISHU – Federal MP and Former minister of Justice and Constitional Afairs of Somalia, Farah Sheikh Abdulkadir has condemned terror attack in Mogadishu.
Hon. Farah described Saturday’s truck bombing as the deadliest attack killed hundreds of people in the capital of Somalia.
“It is a revolting attack both in terms of its intent and impact,” MP Farah said.
He commended all responders and residents of Mogadishu, for mobilizing to aid in what is being called Somalia’s worst-ever bomb attack.
Hon. Abdulkadir conveyed his condolences to the bereaved families, as well as his wishes for a speedy recovery to those injured in the attack.
The death toll has steadily risen since Saturday, when the blasts – for which no organisation had claimed responsibility by Monday morning – struck at two busy junctions in the heart of the city.
“We have confirmed 300 people died in the blast. The death toll will still be higher because some people are still missing,” Abdikadir Abdirahman, the director of the city’s ambulance service, told Reuters on Monday.
Some of the injured were being evacuated by air to Turkey for treatment, officials said.
Saturday bomb attacks were the deadliest since Islamist militant group al Shabaab began an insurgency in 2007.
