An al-Qaeda-linked group set off twin car bombs, killing at least 100 people and injuring 300, causing the highest civilian death toll from a single attack in Somalia for five years.
The people who were killed included “mothers carrying children, fathers seeking medical treatment, students going to study and businessmen working to feed their families,” President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said in a televised statement early Sunday.
The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabaab extremist group soon claimed responsibility, saying its objective was to hit the education ministry.
