2024 Mogadishu market bombing

2024 Mogadishu market bombing
Part of Somali Civil War (2009–present)
The Bakaara Market in 2005
LocationMogadishu, Somalia
Coordinates2.0473077, 45.3188194
Date6 February 2024
TargetBakaara Market
Attack type
Bombings
Deaths10
Injured20
Perpetrators Al-Shabaab suspected.[1]

On 6 February 2024, four bombings inside the Bakaara Market in the Somali capital Mogadishu killed at least ten people and injured over twenty others.[2]

The market targeted sold goods, services, firearms and daily essentials such as petrol, food, wheat, medicine, clothes and electronics.[3] The market also is famous for illicit activities, such as selling forged passports, forged university diplomas and forged birth certificates.[4] The victims of the bombings were sent to the Erdoğan Hospital.[5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference : 1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Blasts in Somalia's capital Mogadishu kill at least 10, says residents". The Jerusalem Post. 2024-02-06. Archived from the original on 2024-02-11. Retrieved 2024-02-11.
  3. ^ "Market place where money talks". Daily news Botswana. June 26, 2014. Retrieved August 12, 2024.
  4. ^ "Mogadishu Market Bombing Kills at Least Eight". West Observer. 2024-02-06. Archived from the original on 2024-03-15. Retrieved 2024-03-15.
  5. ^ "Ten dead, 20 others injured in multiple blasts in market in Somali capital". Al Jazeera. Archived from the original on 2024-03-16. Retrieved 2024-03-15.

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