The death toll from a car bomb at a marketplace in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu has risen to 34 with 52 injured, said a police officer.
Many of the dead were carried away by their relatives soon after the blast, said Captain Mohamed Hussein.
“It was a horrific and barbaric attack only aimed at killings civilians,” he said from the scene of the blast.
Sabriye Abdullahi, an ambulance driver said that some of the injured victims died on their way to the hospitals.