Somalis Grasp For Answers After 'Deadliest Single Attack Somalia Has Ever Faced'
More than 300 people died in a truck bombing that rocked the country's capital on Saturday — and it's likely that staggering death toll will rise further. Amid the rubble, difficult questions remain.
by Colin Dwyer
Oct 16, 2017
2 minutes
The initial numbers were staggering — and they grew ever more devastating as rescue workers sifted through debris: More than 300 people dead. At least 300 people injured. A blast area the size of "two or three football fields," as one witness told The Guardian.
The truck bombing in Mogadishu on Saturday — which tore through one of the Somalian capital's busiest intersections, at one of its busiest.
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