Mogadishu car bombing
leaves 10 dead
By Omar Nor and Shachar Peled,
CNN
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| Somali soldiers stand near the wreckage of a car bomb attack in Mogadishu.
At least 15 people
were injured in the bomb explosion at a busy security checkpoint in the
country's capital, according to Somali federal police Maj. Ahmed Ibrahim. The
blast was caused by an explosive-laden vehicle about 150 meters from the
entrance of Villa Somalia, the presidential palace in Mogadishu, Ibrahim said.
The attack occurred
hours after Somalia Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khayre appointed his new Cabinet.
The dead include a
soldier who attempted to fend off the car bomb, and several women selling Khat
on the roadside, said Abdifitah Omar Halane, a spokesman for the Mogadishu
mayor.
Somali security forces
sealed off the area, where a thick column of white smoke rose into sky. Local
ambulances rushed in and carried away wounded to hospitals in Mogadishu.
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