
At least 10 reported killed in suicide bomb blast in Somalia’s Mogadishu | News
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- May 18, 2025
The suicide bomber is aimed at the tail of young recruits that are registered in a military base in the capital.
Several people have been reported by a suicide bombing in a recruitment center of the army in the capital of Somalia, Mogadiscio.
The attacker went on Sunday to a tail of young recruits that align outside the base of Damanyo, killing at least 10 people, according to the Reuters news agency he summoned witnesses.
The teenagers aligned at the door of the base when the suicidal terrorist detonated the explosives, they said.
Abdisalan Mohamed said he had “hundreds of teenagers at the door when we passed on a bus.”
“Abruptly, a deafening Ocrred explosion, and the area was covered by a dense smoke. We could not see the details of the victims,” he added.
A military captain who gave his name when Suleiman described the attack as he had seen him develop.
“He was on the other side of the road. A tuk-tuk to acceleration stopped, a low man, ran into his tail and then exploded. I saw 10 people dead, including recruits and passersby. The death toll can increase,” he told Reuters.
The abandoned shoes boxes and the remains of the suicide bomber remained visible on the scene.
The medical staff of the Military Hospital told Reuters that they had resorted to 30 people injured from the explosion and that six had the immediate.
Separately, an official told the Anadolu news agency that the attack had killed at least 11 people.
The government has cordoned off the area.
There was no immediate response claim, but the attack echoed a similar incident in 2023 when a suicide terrorist killed 25 soldiers at the Jale Siyad base, located in front of Damanyo’s facilities.
Sunday’s attack continues to the murder on Saturday of Colonel Abdirahmaan Hujaalee, commander of Battalion 26, in the Hiiran region in the middle of local reports of the infiltration of the Al-Shabab armed group in government and security forces.
Al-Shabab has been fighting the Somali government for almost two decades and often points to government officials and military personnel.