At least nine people were killed and several others injured in simultaneous car bomb attacks in a central Somali town, according to reports.
“The blasts occurred near a restaurant not far from a district administration building in Mahas,” according to witnesses.
“I saw the dead bodies of nine civilians including women and children, this was a horrible attack,” said one witness.
“The terrorists attacked Mahas town using vehicles loaded with explosives,” local security official Abdullahi Adan told AFP.
“They have targeted a civilian area and we have confirmed that nine people, all of them civilians, died in the two explosions,” he added.