By Suleiman Sabdow
MOGADISHU -Somalia is today marking four years anniversary since the devastating attack in the busy Zoobe junction when a truck loaded with explosives drove into the area killing over 500 people and injuring close to 700 others.
The attack which sent shock waves in the entire World was termed as the most devastating terror attack to happen on an African soil and left a trail of destruction behind.
The Al-Qaeda affiliated group which has always waged and fronted bombing and attacks did not claim responsibility for the attack as they usually do. Security analysts however argued that the decision not to take responsibility was premised on the basis of the massive scale of destruction it left behind.
The United Nation and the US government conveyed to their message of solidarity to the Federal government of Somalia in a statement shared on their official Twitter handles.
“Today we remember and honor the victims of the horrific October 14 terrorist attack in Mogadishu. The United States reaffirms its commitment to stand with the government and people of Somalia in countering violent extremism and terrorism,” the US Embassy in Mogadishu said in a tweet.
Today we remember and honor the victims of the horrific October 14 terrorist attack in #Mogadishu. The United States reaffirms its commitment to stand with the government and people of #Somalia in countering violent extremism and terrorism. pic.twitter.com/dOc9fpYmLH
— U.S. Embassy Mogadishu, Somalia (@US2SOMALIA) October 14, 2021
This comes barely a day after three people were killed and scores of others maimed after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a busy restaurant in Mogadishu’s Yaqshid district, according to a Police reports.
“The suicide bomber blew up in front of the restaurant that is frequented by local youths, killing at least three people wounding several others,” Abdifatah Hassan the media on phone.
He said that ambulances with paramedics and security personnel reached the scene of the crime and took the wounded to health facilities in the city.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack but Al-Shabaab militants are usually blamed on the spates of terror attacks executed in the fragile of Horn of Africa state which is reeling from decades of civil war after the dethroning of late president Siyad Barre’s government in 1991.
Meanwhile, an undercover detective attached at the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) and two bodyguards were killed after a landmine explosion targeted the vehicle they were travelling in the Daynile district in Mogadishu yesterday.
A police officer who spoke to journalists in Moqadishu after the attack confirmed there were other people who were also hurt in the explosion
Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for this particular attack that and said its fighters ambushed security officials and killed more than 12 soldiers.
