A roadside bomb killed at least seven people on Sunday, mostly women farmers, in an area outside the Somali capital dominated by insurgents who have defied public protests to end years of violence, residents and the army said. A truck bombing in Mogadishu last weekend killed at least 358 people, with 56 people still missing. “We heard a huge crash today and we went to the scene, we saw a ruined minibus and at least seven dead bodies, mostly women. “We are scared,” Abdullahi said “Hundreds of masked militants are everywhere and we anticipate the government will attack here. Somalia has been riven by civil war since 1991, when clan warlords overthrew a dictator then turned on each other.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 22, 2017 10:41 UTC