At least 70 people were killed after a truck bomb was detonated during morning rush hour in Somalia's capital of Mogadishu
At least 70 people were killed Saturday after a massive truck bomb was detonated during morning rush hour in Mogadishu, in one of the deadliest single attacks to take place in Somalia’s decades of civil war and Islamist insurgency.
The blast took place shortly before 8 a.m. at a busy junction that connects the capital to southern Somalia and is a tax collection point for the government. Images from the scene showed the mangled and smoldering frames of vehicles and bodies lying on the ground, some covered or moved away by members...
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