Somali officials expect the death toll to rise after a truck bomb targets a busy security checkpoint at a tax collection centre during morning rush hour in Mogadishu.
A truck bomb exploded at a busy security checkpoint in Somalia's capital, killing at least 76 people, in one of the deadliest attacks in Mogadishu in recent memory.Al Qaeda-backed Islamist group Al Shabaab has previously carried out similar attacksThe toll was likely to rise as scores of people were rushed to hospitals, government spokesman Ismail Mukhtar told The Associated Press.Mayor Omar Mohamud Mohamed, speaking at the scene, said university students were among those killed.
Rescuers carried dead bodies past the twisted wreckage of a vehicle and minibus taxis smeared with blood while a large black plume of smoke rose above the capital.
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