2024 Mogadishu market bombing | |
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Part of Somali Civil War (2009–present) | |
![]() The Bakaara Market in 2005 | |
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Native name | Weeraradii Suuqa Bakaaraha |
Location | Mogadishu, Somalia |
Coordinates | 2°2′56.04″N 45°19′12″E / 2.0489000°N 45.32000°E |
Date | 6 February 2024 |
Target | Bakaara Market |
Attack type | Bombings |
Deaths | 10 |
Injured | 20+ |
Perpetrators | ![]() |
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]
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