IED

IED event in Gedo, Bardera area, Somalia on Tue 14th March 2023

14th March 2023

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At least 5 people have been killed and 11 wounded, including a governor, in a suicide bombing in southwestern Somalia on Tuesday. ÒA suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden vehicle into a guesthouse in Bardera where government officials were staying,Ó said Hussein Adan, a police commander in the town in the Gedo region 450 kilometres west of the capital Mogadishu.

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