‘Scores of casualties’ after twin blasts in Somalia’s capital

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“The ruthless terrorists killed mothers, some of them died with their children trapped on their backs,” police spokesman Sadik Dudishe told reporters, adding the attackers targetted “students and other civilians”.State news agency SONNA, said the bombings caused “scores of civilian casualties, including independent journalist Mohamed Isse Kona”.Abdikadir Abdirahman, founder of the Aamin Ambulance Service, told Reuters news agency a driver and a first aid worker were injured in the second blast as their ambulance came to transport casualties from the first bombing.Fighters from the group were ousted from Mogadishu in 2011, but they continue to stage attacks on military, government and civilian targets.And it will take time for Shabab to be eliminated from the capital, but the work is ongoing,” she told Al Jazeera."

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