At least 15 people were killed and more than 50 injured in two attacks late Saturday near African Union bases in the central Somali state of Hirshabelle.
The first attack occurred in the city of Bulobarde, where a terrorist behind the wheel of a car bomb killed eleven people and wounded about fifty, medical sources confirmed to the Somali branch of the U.S. international broadcaster Voice of America.
Security forces identified the vehicle and opened fire on the driver, but the car eventually exploded near a police station and a base of African Union forces, mostly from Djibouti.
Some 30 of the wounded are in critical condition, according to local doctor Yusuf Isaq Mumin.
Another car bomb near a military post in the town of Jalalaqsi has left at least four more dead, confirmed former district commissioner Mire Husein Siyad, a witness to the blast.
So far no group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but Somali authorities point without doubt to the jihadist organization Al Shabaab, now the target of one of the biggest military offensives in recent years by Somali security forces.
As in the previous attack, the checkpoint was located near another base of Djiboutian soldiers of the African Union.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
