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BREAKING: Six die in a bomb blast in a police station in Somalia

No fewer that six people, including two law enforcement officers were reportedly killed when a suicide bomber attacked a a police station in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, the country’s Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism has confirmed.

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BREAKING: Six die in a bomb blast in a police station in Somalia

No fewer that six people, including two law enforcement officers were reportedly killed when a suicide bomber attacked a a police station in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, the country’s Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism has confirmed.

Following the explosion, Somalian prime minister condemned the cowardly terrorist attack on Mogadishu’s Waberi district police station that claimed lives of six people including two police officers, Sputnik news agency reported.

More so, the prime minister extended his condolences to the families and the people of Somalia on the loss of lives,” the Information Ministry said on Twitter.

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According to Somali National Television (SNTV), the explosion occurred at Mogadishu’s Waberi Police Station on Sunday evening, when a suicide bomber drove a vehicle filled with explosives into the front gate of the station.

SNTV said that Waberi Police Chief Ahmed Bashane and Deputy Commander for Waliyow Adde Police Division Abdi Basid were among the six people killed in the blast.

“I condemn the terrorist attack on the Waberi district police station,” Somalia’s prime minister, Mohamed Hussein Roble, tweeted.

Local media reports suggest that several people were also wounded in the blast and there are civilian casualties as well.

However, Somalia’s President Farmaajo sent his profound condolences to families and all Somalian people for the loss of police officers and civilians who were killed in Sunday’s cowardly terrorist blast in Mogadishu.
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