Suicide Bombing in Borama, Somalia
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:45 pm
Faud Al-Hakiim
19, July, 2007
Borama, Somalia
At least 14 people have been killed in an apparent suicide bombing at a movie theatre in Northwest Somalia, the third such attack in a single day.
The blast hit as Gadubirsa theater-goers were going to view the premier of an Indian film in the Awdal Central Market area in Borama, a Somaliland government stronghold about 400km west of the regional capital, Hargeisa.
The three attacks have claimed the lives of at least 49 people.
A local police official said: "Fourteen people were killed and at least 19 others were injured in the blast in a theatre."
"It appears to be a suicide blast," he said.
Already on Thursday, two explosions in Somalia, one in the south and the other in the northwest, have killed at least 36 people, mostly police.
A bomb blast in a market place in the southern town of Mogadishu, on the border between Shabelle Dhexe and Shabelle Hoose provinces, killed at least 25 people, including seven policemen.
Earlier a suicide bomber blew himself up at a police training centre in the northwestern city of Borama.
The attacks were the latest in a wave of violence across Somalia, thought to be a backlash to Somaliland President Riyaale's storming of a Habar Warsanteen clan parade in Borama earlier this month, resulting in 34 deaths, including the husband of a local vixen, Ashlee.
Source: Al Jazeera Network
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Habar Warsanteen show no signs of stopping. Keep up the good work, brothers, one day freedom shall come and fall on our laps.
19, July, 2007
Borama, Somalia
At least 14 people have been killed in an apparent suicide bombing at a movie theatre in Northwest Somalia, the third such attack in a single day.
The blast hit as Gadubirsa theater-goers were going to view the premier of an Indian film in the Awdal Central Market area in Borama, a Somaliland government stronghold about 400km west of the regional capital, Hargeisa.
The three attacks have claimed the lives of at least 49 people.
A local police official said: "Fourteen people were killed and at least 19 others were injured in the blast in a theatre."
"It appears to be a suicide blast," he said.
Already on Thursday, two explosions in Somalia, one in the south and the other in the northwest, have killed at least 36 people, mostly police.
A bomb blast in a market place in the southern town of Mogadishu, on the border between Shabelle Dhexe and Shabelle Hoose provinces, killed at least 25 people, including seven policemen.
Earlier a suicide bomber blew himself up at a police training centre in the northwestern city of Borama.
The attacks were the latest in a wave of violence across Somalia, thought to be a backlash to Somaliland President Riyaale's storming of a Habar Warsanteen clan parade in Borama earlier this month, resulting in 34 deaths, including the husband of a local vixen, Ashlee.
Source: Al Jazeera Network
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Habar Warsanteen show no signs of stopping. Keep up the good work, brothers, one day freedom shall come and fall on our laps.
