An Islamist suicide bombing outside a school in Somalia's capital killed eight people and wounded 17 including 13 children, the latest in a string of deadly blasts this year in a country beset by political turmoil and drought.
A civilian walks past the wreckages of vehicles and the debris of classrooms after a car exploded in a suicide attack near Mucassar primary and secondary school in Hodan district of MogadishuMOGADISHU - An Islamist suicide bombing outside a school in Somalia's capital killed eight people and wounded 17 including 13 children, the latest in a string of deadly blasts this year in a country beset by political turmoil and drought.
A column of smoke rose over the Mocaasir Primary and Secondary School, where classroom ceilings crashed onto students' desks, witnesses said. Video footage and photographs showed two walls of one classroom in pieces and a chalkboard with a scrawled sentence still intact. School buses and cars were blasted into heaps of metal.
Al Shabaab has been fighting Somalia's central government for years, seeking to take power and impose its strict interpretation of Islam's sharia law.
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