Somalia terror attack - Over 300 dead
Somali security forces and others gather and search for bodies near destroyed buildings at the scene of Saturday's blast, in Mogadishu, Somalia Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017. (Farah Abdi Warsameh / AP)
More than 300 people are dead after the truck bombing in Somalia's capital and scores of others remain missing, authorities said Monday, as the fragile Horn of Africa nation reeled from one of the world's worst attacks in years.
As funerals continued, the government said the death toll is expected to rise.
Another nearly 400 people are injured, many badly burned, after Saturday's bombing targeted a crowded street in Mogadishu. Somalia's government has blamed the al-Qaida -linked al-Shabab , Africa's deadliest Islamic extremist group, which has not commented.
As hospitals and families continued to count the dead, nearly 70 people remained missing, based on accounts from relatives, said police Capt. Mohamed Hussein. He said many bodies were burned to ashes in the attack.
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Overwhelmed hospitals in Mogadishu have struggled to assist other badly wounded victims, many burned beyond recognition. Exhausted doctors struggled to keep their eyes open as the screams from victims or newly bereaved families echoed in the halls.
The attack is one of the deadliest attacks in sub-Saharan Africa, larger than the Garissa University attack in Kenya in 2015, in which 148 died, and the U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, in which about 219 were killed.
Mogadishu, a city long accustomed to deadly bombings by al-Shabab, was stunned by the force of Saturday's blast. The explosion shattered hopes of recovery in an impoverished country left fragile by decades of conflict, and it again raised doubts over the government's ability to secure the seaside city of more than 2 million people.
Sadly this sort of thing is fairly common in parts of Africa
And parts of Chicago.
If ever a couple of groups needed to be wiped out to the man, these two and ISIS fit the bill. We need to start capturing more of them, executing them by decapitation and then sticking the head on a pole as a warning for the others.
Now that the so-called Islamic State has suffered several major losses in the Middle east, they are focusing their effots elsewhere-- particularly in Africa, Asia...and Europe.
(But we are lucky living here iin the U.s., as IS is not able to strike us here)