During this Sunday there was a car bomb attack on a hotel in Somalia. According to reports, among the injured are the former president of the Parliament of Hirshabelle and several parliamentarians of that state. Somalia has lived in a state of war and chaos since 1991, when the dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was overthrown.
Several ministers and regional parliamentarians were injured this Sunday in a jihadist suicide attack with a car bomb on a hotel in the city of Jowhar, regarding 90 kilometers from the capital of Somalia, Mogadishu, government sources confirmed to EFE.
The attack, whose authorship was attributed to the jihadist group Al Shabab, shook the popular Nuur Doob hotel, frequented by government officials from the state of Hirshabelle (central-south), whose capital is Jowhar.
The State Minister for Women, Asha Khalif, the State Minister for Health, Abdi Moalim; the former Speaker of Hirshabelle Parliament and several MPs from that state “they are among the victims of the explosion” and “they are all injured”said the aforementioned sources, without providing further details.
The explosion caused extensive material damage to the establishment and surrounding buildings, according to images broadcast by Somali National Television (SNTV).
The new Somali Prime Minister, Hamza Abdi Barre, telephoned the president of Hirshabelle, Ali Gudlawe, to express his sorrow for the “cowardly terrorist attack on Sunday”Somali state media reported.
Barre became prime minister on June 25, following the Somali Parliament approved his appointment at the proposal of the country’s president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, winner of the elections on May 15 and who promised in his investiture speech to end Al Shabab.
The jihadist group, which joined the Al Qaeda terrorist network in 2012, frequently carries out attacks in Mogadishu and other parts of the country to overthrow the central government and establish by force a Wahhabi-style Islamic State (ultra-conservative).
Also, Al-Shabab controls several parts of the countryespecially rural areas in the center and south.
Somalia has been in a state of war and chaos since 1991, when dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was overthrown, leaving the country without an effective government and in the hands of Islamist militias and warlords.
