An airplane carrying health supplies and doctors arrived at the Adan Adde Airport in Somali capital Mogadishu on Dec. 30, 2019. The plane will take some of the heavily injured people of the recent terror attack in Mogadishu to get a better health service in Qatar. (Xinhua)
Death toll from a suicide bomb attack at a busy checkpoint west of Somali capital Mogadishu has risen to 84 after five more bodies were found, a government official has confirmed.
MOGADISHU, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Death toll from a suicide bomb attack at a busy checkpoint west of Somali capital Mogadishu has risen to 84 after five more bodies were found, a government official confirmed on Monday.
Ismael Mukhtar Omar, government spokesman of Somalia said the National Emergency Management Committee estimated that the number of missing people was 24.
However, Omar said after intensive search efforts of the missing persons, 12 people were found. Five of the 12 persons were found dead, one injured and six others were found alive, bringing the death toll to 84. Some of the missing are believed to be students.
Photo taken on Dec. 28, 2019 shows the scene after a truck bomb attack in the suburbs of Mogadishu, capital of Somalia. (Xinhua)
More than 150 others were wounded in the attack resulting from the blast of an explosives-laden vehicle in the middle of the Ex-Control checkpoint on a road leading to the Afgoye district.
Some of the injured people were airlifted on Sunday to Istanbul for specialized treatment.
No group has claimed responsibility for the Saturday's deadly attack although al-Shabab militants have usually staged such attacks in the past.■
