Ben Cowles
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A CAR bomb exploded outside a busy restaurant at lunchtime today in Somalia’s capital, killing at least 16 people.
A video posted online by the Aamin Ambulance Service, which describes itself as the first and only free ambulance service in Mogadishu, showed rescue workers racing towards the restaurant and escorting 17 injured people away from the scene.
Today’s explosion was the seventh attack in eight days and so far no group has claimed responsibility for it.
However the jihadist group al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for some of the recent attacks in the city.
The recent spate of attacks come as US has escalated its air strikes on supposed al-Shabaab fighters and bases.
A New York Times investigation on March 10 found that the surge in US air strikes in the last four months of 2018 pushed the death toll to the third highest in three years.
“Last year,” the report said, “the strikes killed 326 people in 47 disclosed attacks, Defence Department data shows. And so far this year, the intensity is on a pace to eclipse the 2018 record.”
