{"id":94818,"date":"2024-07-15T10:19:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T10:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/15\/several-dead-in-bombing-near-cafe-in-somalia-packed-with-fans-watching-euro-2024-final\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T10:19:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T10:19:05","slug":"several-dead-in-bombing-near-cafe-in-somalia-packed-with-fans-watching-euro-2024-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/15\/several-dead-in-bombing-near-cafe-in-somalia-packed-with-fans-watching-euro-2024-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Several dead in bombing near cafe in Somalia packed with fans watching Euro 2024 final"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A bombing near a cafe in Somalia where people were watching England’s Euro 2024 final with Spain has left at least five people dead.<\/p>\n

Police said a car loaded with explosives blew up next to the cafe in the Somali capital of Mogadishu<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

At least 20 other people were injured, according to police spokesman Major Abdifitah Aden Hassa.<\/p>\n

People were inside the venue watching the game live from Berlin<\/a><\/strong> on a screen at the time.<\/p>\n

Pictures of the scene showed the burnt out wreckage of several vehicles and extensive damage to buildings.<\/p>\n

A witness, Ismail Adan, said: “Some of the spectators got injured while trying to jump the perimeter wall of the cafe, and others got wounded in a stampede.”<\/p>\n

Most of the victims were in the street at the time of the explosion, he added.<\/p>\n

A reporter from the Reuters news agency said the bomb destroyed 10 cars and damaged several buildings in a highly guarded area near the Presidential Palace.<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the explosion.<\/p>\n

Attacks by the Islamic militant group al Shabaab<\/a><\/strong> are frequently reported in Mogadishu and elsewhere in Somalia.<\/p>\n

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The group opposes Somalia’s federal government, which depends on the support of foreign troops to stay in power.<\/p>\n

But Mogadishu has been mostly peaceful in recent months.<\/p>\n

That calm was broken on Saturday with an attempted jailbreak by inmates inside a Mogadishu prison.<\/p>\n

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In that attack, in which at least eight people were killed, prisoners convicted for their roles in al Shabaab attacks exchanged fire with guards before they were killed.<\/p>\n

Somalia’s government is conducting a high-profile offensive against the extremist group, who control large parts of central and southern Somalia and which the US has described as one of al Qaeda’s deadliest organisations.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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