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The Somali capital, Mogadishu, has had a deadly week with a sustained attack by the insurgent group Al-Shabaab, which killed nearly 30 people.
The latest attack that took place today (March 28) claimed the lives of 15 people, according to local media and the Aamin ambulance service.
The most used means of attack was the car bomb. Today's explosion, a car bombing, took place near a hotel and restaurants in a neighborhood that has been heavily used in the past, emergency services said.
The afternoon explosion threw smoke into the sky and destroyed two restaurants and cars parked nearby. A Reuters witness counted six corpses. Police estimate eight deaths, which could increase.
"Up to here, we carried 11 dead and 16 wounded. The death toll could rise, "Abdikadir Abdirahman, director of Ambulance Amin, told Reuters, the figure has since been revised to 15 deaths.
From March 21st to the present day, car bombs and improvised explosive devices (IED) attacks were a regular attack, with the exception of the 22nd and 24th. The 23rd saw two different attacks.
A VOA journalist who closes covers the country shared a breakdown of the Mogadishu attacks:
March 21: A car bomb kills civil engineer
March 23: A complex attack kills 15 people
March 23: two bady-traps kill 2
March 25: Attack on the car bomb kills Univ. staff member
March 26: A car bomb kills 14 years old boy
March 27: IED kills 1 death, police commander survives
March 28: A car bomb kills 15 people
Al-Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militants have once targeted the same location – the Wehliye Hotel – which lies along the busy Maka al Mukaram road. The group claimed responsibility for today's attack.
On Saturday, 15 people died in two explosions and a shootout between Al Shabaab militants and members of the security forces in Mogadishu.
Al Shabaab, trying to overthrow the Somali Wsupported by the East central government, was expelled from Mogadishu in 2011 and has since been driven out of most of its other strongholds.
But this remains a threat, with fighters frequently bombing Somalia and neighboring Kenya, whose troops are part of the African Union-mandated peacekeeping force that helps defend the central government.
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