The number of deaths in Somalia's Somali capital attacks in Mogadishu has reached 300, with more than 300 others injured. The government has announced three days of mourning.
Director of car transport services Dr. Abdulkadir Adam has said that the zaid people have died from injuries in a few hours ago.
Funeral activity has begun with the number of deaths expected to increase. The attack on the truck bombing targeted the area of commercial activity in Mogadishu has also wounded 300 other people. The Somali government has accused al-Shabab militants of al-Shabaab that has not yet reported its involvement .
Officials say more than 70 injured people have been rushed to Turkey for emergency flights when international aid begins to arrive. Hospitals in Mogadishu continue to serve injuries, although police officer Ibrahim Mohamed has told the AFP news agency that many injuries have been seriously injured.
The attack is said to be the worst ever witnessing in the world and in the African region, in the southern suburbs of the Sahara desert in recent years, the largest attack on Garissa University in Kenya 2015, is also more than a 1998 attack on US ambassador in the United States. Tanzania and Kenya.
Somali news minister Abdirahman Osman said another country including Kenya and Ethiopia has confirmed to send medical aid to what the Somali government called it a "national disaster".
Al-Shabaab attacks
So far no group claimed to be involved in the attack but the al-Shabab Islamic militant group has often focused on key areas in Mogadishu in its attempt to disarm the Somali government that is supported by the international community.
Earlier this year, it vowed to accelerate the attack after US president Donald Trump and the new Somali president, announcing new military strategies to deal with the group.
In February this year the auto-ambulance bomb killed 36 people, a short time after the al-Shabaab fighters threatened to "wage war" against a well-chosen new president also in the name of Farmajo.
Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has announced three days of mourning and joining thousands of people who responded to the call for blood transfusion in the hospital. He has also visited the scene of the attack and also encountered victims of the incident. Farmajo has said on television that "the incident today is a bad attack on Al-Shabaab against innocent civilians and does not target the Somali government collectively".
The Mayor of the Mogadisgu Tabid Abdi Mohamed also visited the victims and said that the scandal of the attack was "not talking". Hundreds of people passed the streets of Mogadishu last Sunday to condemn the attack.
International organizations condemn the attack
The United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates protest against the attack. Turkey's spokeswoman Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ibrahim Kalin said Turkey has sent a plane equipped with medical equipment, adding that injuries will be sent to Turkey for further torture. Turkey is a donor and prime investor in Somalia.
Qatar Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani has written on his Twitter page that the embassy of the country has been seriously injured in the attack and one of his senior officers has been injured.
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