In a statement released early on Sunday, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud announced that the explosion of two teller cars in front of the Ministry of Education building in the capital city of Mogadishu on Saturday resulted in at least 100 fatalities and 300 injuries.
“Among our citizens who were killed by mothers who were carrying their children, patient fathers, students who were sent to study and businessmen who were struggling for the lives of their families,” the President said after visiting the bombing site.
The first automobile blew up at the Ministry of Education in Mogadishu, close to a busy junction. The second car blew up as ambulances arrived and people flocked to aid the injured.
The president laid the blame for the attack on the hard-line Islamic youth movement, though no group quickly claimed responsibility. The movement typically refrains from taking credit for attacks that result in a significant number of casualties.
The two blasts were so powerful that they smashed the nearby windows with their explosive wave. The area in front of the building was covered in the blood of the explosion victims.
The attack occurred in the same area as Somalia’s largest bombing in the same month of 2017.
In that incident, which left more than 500 people dead, a truck bomb detonated outside of a packed hotel at the intersection surrounded by governmental buildings, eateries, and retail establishments.
Mahmoud warned that there might be an increase in casualties. He continued by saying that he had given the government orders to get the injured people rapid medical care because some of them were in critical condition.
At least 100 people were killed in Somalia by two car explosives.
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