At least 3 people were killed, and 10 others wounded in twin grenade blasts in Somalia’s southern port city of Marka, some 100Km south of Mogadishu on Thursday.| At least long-time readers will know where that is... |
Somali security officials in the seaside town have immediately blamed the simultaneous deadly bomb attacks on the Al Qaeda-affiliated Al Shabaab militants. Al Shabaab lost the city’s control to SNA and AU troops in 2012, barely a year after the militants were driven out of Mogadishu, the conflict-riddled Somali capital.
Meanwhile, the Somali military officers have imposed a curfew on Marka following the explosions, in an attempt to beef up the security and prevent impending attacks, reports said.