Somalia: At least 300 people killed in car bombings - CNN

Somalia: At least 300 people killed in car bombings - CNN

Mogadishu (CNN)At least 300 people have been confirmed dead after a double car
bombing rocked Mogadishu on Saturday, making it the deadliest attack in
Somalia's modern history.

The revised death toll follows efforts by
rescue works to recover bodies from the rubble and the deaths of several people
who succumbed to their wounds on Monday, according to Major Ahmed Ibrahim of
the police force.

More than 30 people injured severely by the
blast were airlifted to Turkey on Monday by military air ambulance after the
Turkish health minister arrived in the Somali capital.

Minutes after the first blast, a second
vehicle bomb went off nearby. No casualties were reported from that second
blast, according to police.

Al-Shabaab, which is now based mainly in rural
areas in the south of the country having lost control of Mogadishu in 2011, has
been waging a war with the Somali government for more than ten years, prompting
the African Union to send in peace keeping troops.

The terror group has also taken the war
abroad, especially to Kenya. In September 2013, Al-Shabaab gunmen attacked
the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, killing at
least 67 people.