The death toll from a truck bombing in Somalia’s capital has risen above 300, the director of an ambulance service said Monday, as the fragile Horn of Africa nation reeled from the deadliest single attack it’s ever experienced. Funerals have begun, and the government said the death toll is expected to rise in what has become one of the world’s worst attacks in years. This is now the deadliest attack in Somalia’s history and one of the worst in the world in recent years. The previous deadliest assault took place in October 2011, when a truck bomb targeting a government office left 82 dead and 150 injured. Saturday’s blast, the worst in Somalia’s history, came six years after Shabaab militants were pushed out of Mogadishu by African Union and Somali troops.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 16, 2017 13:41 UTC