Mogadishu – African Union forces in Somalia on Tuesday said a “cowardly” bomb attack the previous day had killed 19 people, nearly double the number initially reported.
The car bomb exploded on Monday outside a bank on a busy street in the southern Somali town of Baidoa.
“The blast killed 19 innocent victims and destroyed valuable property,” the AU force said in a statement, updating an earlier toll from the police of 10.
The town, which is under the control of government troops backed by AU soldiers, was wrested from the al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab rebels two years ago…
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