Brussels 30.10.202 2At least 100 people have been killed and 300 injured after two explosions shattered the capital of Somalia in an ongoing attack on the country’s education ministry. The attack occurred in a busy area where several key government offices are situated, and on a day when the nation’s President, Prime minister and other senior officials were meeting to discuss violent extremism. (Image: social media)
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud confirmed the death toll in a statement on Sunday on October 30 as he visited the site of the blasts outside the education ministry in Mogadishu.
“Our people who were massacred… included mothers with their children in their arms, fathers who had medical conditions, students who were sent to study, businessmen who were struggling with the lives of their families,” the President said.
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