Somalia

Explosions in front of the airport of the Somali capital Mogadishu

Five years ago, the Islamists militia Al-Shabaab was expelled from Mogadishu. Now she’s back, apparently. At the airport detonate bombs. A radio transmitter, the extremists commit.

The airport of Mogadishu, has become the attack target

New Terror in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, According to police, bombs in the vicinity of the airport went up – close to many of the UN building as well as barracks for the troops of the African Union (AU).

The number of deaths, there are different information. In security, the speech circuits of at least eight Victims. Local media reported that at least 12 people were killed. Nine of them UN-awake people, three soldiers of the African Union.

The first Explosion apparently caused by a car bomb. How it came to the second Explosion is still unclear.

Al-Shabaab is holding the country in suspense

The Islamist Al-Shabaab militia is already for a series of attacks in Mogadishu responsible. The extremists want to overthrow the government and establish a theocracy in the Horn of Africa build. The 22,000-AU-soldiers will support the government in the fight against the Al-Shabaab militia. In the past few years, it was managed to expel the extremists from the capital. Check, however, several rural regions.

pv/ml of (ap, afp, dpa, rtr)