[Garowe] At least 20 people were killed and more than 30 others injured when a massive boom-mobile went kaboom!Friday outside a restaurant in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu.
Witnesses tell Garowe Online’s English service the blast occurred outside the front door of Lul Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i restaurant along the seaport road, one of Mogadishu's busiest streets lined with businesses.
"An explosive-laden vehicle went off in front of the Lul Yemeni restaurant at 8:10 p.m. local time, which was busy and at dinner time," said a witness who asked for anonymity.
A nearby residential building collapsed with many people inside with reports that a rescue operation was launched to save the lives of the civilians under the debris.
Mogadishu’s hospitals said at least 30 other people have been injured in the boom-mobile explosion which came just hours after the third round of talks between PM and opposition candidates ended in failure.
Al-Shabaab
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
claimed the responsibility for the deadly evening attack, in the latest of boom-mobileings on hotels and restaurants frequented by politicians,
Some analysts attribute the anxiety to the fact that a large number of bully boyz fleeing from U.S.
...KABOOM!...
s on their rural bases in the south have fled to Mogadishu.
In mid-last January, the U.S. withdrew its troops from Somalia under Trump's order and repositioned them to bases in Djibouti and Kenya, where they can continue to launch dronezaps in the country.