MOGADISHU, Somalia




The most powerful bomb blast ever witnessed in Somalia's capital killed at least 231 people with more than 275 injured, a senator said Sunday, making it the deadliest single attack in this Horn of Africa nation.




The toll could continue to rise.




The Mogadishu bombing is one of the deadliest attacks in sub-Saharan Africa, larger than the Garissa University attack in Kenya in 2015 and the U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.


Doctors at Mogadishu hospitals struggled to assist badly wounded victims, many burned beyond recognition.


"This is really horrendous, unlike any other time in the past," said Dr. Mohamed Yusuf, the director of Medina hospital.



https://www.vox.com/world/2017/10/17/16485944/somalia-truck-bombings-mogadishu-terror-attack-shabaab?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C2762603767

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-4981802/Death-toll-blast-Somalias-capital-rises-53.html

A Somali woman reacts as she stands by the remains of victims of Saturday's blast, in Mogadishu, Somalia, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017.


A man and woman look at the damages on the site of the explosion of a truck bomb in the centre of Mogadishu.




A woman sit beside the body of a loved one.


Military at scene of the attack

What's all this

Somalis remove the body of men killed in Saturday's blast, in Mogadishu, Somalia Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017.

Somalis remove the body of a man killed in a blast in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017

Somalis gather and search for survivors by destroyed buildings at the scene of a blast in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017.

Vehicles burn at the scene of the massive explosion in front of Safari Hotel.
Lalasticlala, Mynd44

No where is safe anymore.

Somali Armed Forces evacuate their injured colleague from the scene of the explosion as a vehicle burns in the background.

Somali children assist other civilians and security forces in their rescue efforts by carrying away unidentified charred human remains in a cardboard box, to clear the scene of Saturday's blast, in Mogadishu, Somalia, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017.




Ambulances moving the dead and injured from the scene.

Critically wounded men wait to be moved into a Turkish air ambulance plane to airlift injured patients for treatment in Turkey, in Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday, Oct,16, 2017.



Turkish doctors transport a critically wounded man on stretcher into awaiting Turkish aircraft to airlift them to Turkey, in Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday, Oct,16, 2017.

Up to 50 Somalis, who were critically injured in Saturday’s truck bombing, were airlifted to Turkey for medical treatment.

planet earth has gone crazy, need to move to Venus or mercury.
Rip to the dead

How can one wake up and decide to take life? I still don't get.

What the religion of PISS has brought to the world.

There is a name in Benin language that says ''okuoimose'' meaning ''war isn't beautiful''. War is never an option because at the end,it is no victor,no vanguish. We must always preach and ensure peace at all times.

We have almost come to a point where the number of deaths looks like an ordinary mathematical number. It is only when a loved one is a victim that we realise that those numbers represent human lives! RIp to the dead.

The greatest inhumanity ever done to humans is by humans themselves.
More than any time in the history of humanity, our world is being threatened by islamic extremists and terrorists. Bt God pass them. We'll defeat them one day.
Rest in peace to the dead.

It can never be well with anyone doing this or taking joy in it.


It can never be well with war mongers, people who love destruction, who destroy rather than build.


And the people who sponsor them, produce and provide guns and bombs - because they only have one purpose and it is to destroy.

Oh Africa!

We do not need this!!

I lack words to describe my feelings.

Insanity everywhere. Especially Here in Africa where development is slower than a snail!!!!

So disheartening !

Pearl05:
No where is safe anymore.

was Somali ever safe ?

Pearl05:
No where is safe anymore.

was Somali ever safe ?

Oche211:
The greatest inhumanity ever done to humans is by humans themselves.
Rest in peace to the dead.

I had in mind to say the same but you've already did. No need to waste the ink.

231 dead and 200+ and counting injured.

All small Islamic nations should be grateful to Turkey they are just a great big brother, better than saudi in all ramifications. The muslim world will remember them as a nation that saved Islam when the world was at a critical time.

all because of religion.......
all these as$holes should thank their star that am not god.
how can a normal Hunan being with brain/sense kill like that.......later they will be shouting "they are not Mu***m", someone kill all these people just because they don't want to be under bondage.....OK sha!!!

Somalia has been a failed state for decades. It is a shame that a country that is 100% Somali, and has almost 100% Muslim population cannot forge ahead in unity of purpose. RIP to the dead.

RIP to the dead, to those blaming it on religion ask yourself why such things hardly happen in UAE and Saudi.

Some people are just wicked and evil, the case of the Las Vegas shooter comes to mind, the man does not have any known religious affliation and he still committed that atrocity.

Wicked people using religion as reason for their evil acts.

God help us all.

can someone/group of people come and explain/defend this religion of peace



Note: don't you ever look up to me as a xtian

Hmmm, Mogadishu, you would burn but never will you burn to the ground.

There are lots of western conspiracy.

Rest in peace Mogadishu

darkhorizon:

was Somali ever safe ?

Yes, it was not only safe but one of the most beautiful country in Africa, then came the war, the tranquility and serenity was destroyed.

It's sad.

Angry protesters gather near the scene of Saturday's massive truck bomb attack, near the presidential palace, in Mogadishu, Somalia, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017..