Saturday March 6, 2021
Attacker strikes in southwestern Bakol region just hours after deadly suicide bombing in Mogadishu
A soldier and a civilian were killed and four more people injured in a suicide attack in southwestern Somalia on Saturday.
A bomber blew himself up outside a small but busy restaurant in the town of Waajid in the Bakol region, according to Mohamud Kheyrow, a police official.
“At least four people, including two paramilitary soldiers, were injured in the blast,” he told Anadolu Agency, adding that all the wounded have been shifted to a hospital in Baidoa, the administrative capital of Somalia's South West State.
While no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, Dahir Ali Mohamed, a senior military official in Waajid, said a security operation has started in the area and several suspected al-Shabaab members have been arrested.