Somalia: Al-Shabaab mortar fire kills 2 people in Baidoa
Two people were killed and 18 were wounded early Saturday in the southwestern Somali town of Baidoa in a mortar attack by suspected Shebab militants, a senior official said.
“Shebab militants fired mortar shells late last night, striking different neighbourhoods in Baidoa,” the governor of Bay region, Abdirashid Abdullahi, told AFP.
“The casualty number reached about 20, two of them died and eighteen others were hospitalized, five of them with minor injuries.”
There was no immediate claim of responsibility from the Shebab, an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group blamed for a string of bloody attacks in Somalia and neighbouring Kenya.