Somali Suicide Truck Bomb Attack In Mogadishu Kills 90

Daily Mail: Suicide bomber kills more than 90 people including foreigners in attack on checkpoint in Mogadishu

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* A 'devastating' blast ripped through a security checkpoint close to a taxation office in Mogadishu today
* Mogadishu Mayor said at least 90 civilians, including students and two Turkish nationals, had been injured
* The founder of a Mogadishu ambulance service counted the death toll at 76 and said it was likely to rise
* In early December militants sparked a seven-hour gunfight when they stormed an upmarket hotel in the city

An explosion at a busy checkpoint in Somalia's capital Mogadishu today killed at least 90 people and wounded dozens, according to an international agency working inside the country.

Rescuers carried dead bodies past the twisted wreckage of a vehicle and minibus taxis smeared with blood.

'The number of casualties we have confirmed is 76 dead and 70 wounded, it could still be higher,' the director of the private Aamin Ambulance services, Abdukadir Abdirahman Haji said.

The blast took place at the Ex-Control checkpoint, a tax collection centre in Mogadishu, and comes amid persistent insecurity in the Horn of Africa nation.

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