Mogadishu-Sana
There were a number of dead and wounded, including Turks, in a suicide attack targeting employees of a Turkish company in Somalia.
A security source told Anadolu Agency, spokeswoman for the Turkish regime, that “a suicide bomber blew himself up in the Lafuli area south of the Somali capital Mogadishu,” while Somali media indicated that the suicide “targeted Somali police officers who were guarding engineers overseeing the construction of the road linking Mogadishu and Afgooye in the Shabelle region. Lower next door. ”
According to initial reports, the attack killed 5 people, including soldiers and civilians, who were close to the target force, and wounded others, who were taken to hospitals in the capital.
For its part, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said that "four Turks were injured in the attack that targeted the employees of a Turkish company that is building Mogadishu Avgoy Road."
The Al-Shabab movement, which is linked to the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization, claimed responsibility for the bombing in a statement published by a local news website close to it.
Four people were killed and several Turks were wounded in January of last year in a car bomb attack near a road construction site in an area west of the Somali capital, Mogadishu.