[QUOTE]NAIROBI — Two truck bombs in Somalia’s capital killed at least 189 people, the deadliest attacks in the country’s decade-long war with Islamist extremists, signaling that the insurgency is far from defeated despite years of U.S. counterterrorism operations.
Nearly all of the dead were killed by the first bomb, which exploded Saturday outside a popular hotel near a busy intersection in Mogadishu. The second truck bomb killed a few more people nearby.
The Somali capital is a frequent target of attacks by al-Shabab, an extremist group linked to al-Qaeda, but residents said they quickly discerned that the twin blasts were of a different order of magnitude.
The death toll continued to climb overnight. By Sunday afternoon, officials said they were still trying to calculate the number of victims. The Associated Press, quoting police and hospital sources, put the total at 189, while Somali lawmakers told Voice of America that it was 218.
A large swath of a city block appeared wiped out Sunday, and a tower of charred automobiles could be seen at the bombing site. A BBC reporter said people were trapped under the rubble of the Safari Hotel. Local media outlets published photos of bodies being carried from the rubble.
Somalia’s president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, declared three days of national mourning. The government blamed the carnage on al-Shabab, [B]but the group has not claimed responsibility.[/B] [/QUOTE]
[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/truck-bombs-in-somalias-capital-kill-at-least-189/2017/10/15/3c7a310e-b1a1-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html[/url]
holy fuck thats a lot of people just gone like that
Fucking christ. Imagine living your life as anyone else and this happening to you or a family member.
Of course as no one in a western nation was involved this'll get minimal media attention here. It's only when white folks die in terrorist attacks that we lose our minds over it.
The thing that fucks with me the most about massacres like this- Is that the fuckers who did it think they are the good guys.
[QUOTE=St33m;52782687]The thing that fucks with me the most about massacres like this- Is that the fuckers who did it think they are the good guys.[/QUOTE]
People who kill others in the name of a cause, often legitimately believe what they are doing is justified and it'd be insane for them [I]not[/I] to kill others. The victims are innocent civilians, but to them, they feel as though it is completely in their right to do so.
Brainwashing is fucking scary.
Update: death toll is up to 276 now.
[url]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41636076[/url]
[QUOTE]As many as 165 unidentified bodies have been buried after a massive bomb attack in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday.
At least 276 people have died and the government news agency Sonna says only 111 of them have been identified.
A Turkish military plane is taking 40 of the injured to Turkey for medical treatment.
It is the deadliest terror attack in Somalia since the Islamist al-Shabab group launched its insurgency in 2007.
Some of the bodies were reportedly burnt beyond recognition.
Of those who were identified, one of the victims was a medical student who was due to graduate the next day.
Her father had flown to Mogadishu to attend her graduation but instead witnessed her burial.
No group has yet said it was behind the bombing at a busy junction, destroying hotels, government offices and restaurants.[/QUOTE]
I work with interpreters, and my favorite Somali interpreter's father is one of the hundreds who died.
She was really upset and took a week off from her work; the blast was truly felt on an international level, sincerest condolences to all.
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