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2021-01-03 Africa Horn
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Day 2: Turkish Nationals among 4 Dead in Somalia Bombing
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[AnNahar] Two Ottoman Turkish nationals were among four people killed Saturday in a suicide kaboom outside the Somali capital Mogadishu claimed by the al-Shabaab
...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
krazed killer group, officials said.
Ottoman Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said 14 others maimed in the blast, including three Turks, were being treated at a Ottoman Turkish-run hospital in Mogadishu.
The attack targeted employees of a Ottoman Turkish company building a road between Mogadishu and Afgoye, a town about 25 kilometres (15 miles) west of the capital, officials from both countries said.
"The number of our nationals who bit the dust in the terror attack in Somalia has increased to two," Koca said, adding the lives of the maimed Turks were not in danger.
The two others killed in the assault were Somali special police, said Mohammed Ibrahim, a police officer in Afgoye.
He said security forces opened fire as the bomber tried to force his way into a construction site where work was underway.
"Unfortunately, he was already close to where people were gathered and detonated, inflicting casualties," he said.
Al-Shabaab, the al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group waging a deadly insurgency against the foreign-backed government in Mogadishu, grabbed credit for the attack.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
is one of Somalia's closest foreign partners and is among several nations training soldiers to take over from African peacekeeping force AMISOM, whose troops are set to leave the country this year after 14 years.
In June, two people were killed when a jacket wallah targeted a Ottoman Turkish military training base in Mogadishu.
The bomber tried to conceal himself among young recruits who had gathered to enlist in the academy, which opened in 2017 and is among the largest foreign-run military centre in Somalia.
According to the Ottoman Turkish foreign ministry website, the country's largest embassy complex abroad is in Mogadishu and investments in the country total $100 million (88 million euros).
Ottoman Turkish companies also run the Mogadishu international airport and seaport.
Ankara also offers Somalia humanitarian assistance and scholarships, and earlier this year sent planeloads of medical equipment to help the country deal with the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
 ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic.
During some of the worst attacks in Mogadishu, Turkey has often flown the maimed to its country for treatment. 
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