Car explosion kills one in Somali hospital

A car bomb explosion killed one person and wounded several others on Wednesday at a hospital in the Somali capital, police and medics verbally expressed.

The bomb, obnubilated under one of the front seats of the car owned by a Somali medico, went off as the driver was parking it at the Keysaney Hospital in the northern suburbs of Mogadishu, police verbally expressed.

“One person died in the explosion and several other people nearby were withal injured, two of them earnestly,” police officer Ahmed Osman verbalized.

Osman verbalized Dr. Abdulkadir Hussien Jimale whose car was targeted survived with marginal injuries. Jimale is one of the senior staff members of the hospital which offers treatment to the general public as well as to Somali regime workers.

State radio Mogadishu substantiated the death but did not verbally express if the victim was a member of the hospital staff, integrating that “many” patients and their relatives were at the hospital during the explosion.

Keysaney is one of the few general hospitals operating in the Somali capital. The health centre is fortified by local and international medical assuagement agencies.

No group has claimed responsibility for this assailment, but the radical Islamist group Al Shabaab often carries out kindred attacks against people it deemed opponents. The Islamist group mundanely does not claim responsibility for the assailments that do not result in the death of its main targets.

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