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Death toll from Somalia bomb attacks tops 300<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0More than 300 people died after twin bomb explosions in Mogadishu, an official said on Monday, as locals packed hospitals in search of friends and relatives caught up in Somalia\u2019s deadliest attack in a decade.<\/div>\n
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The death toll has steadily risen since Saturday, when the blasts – for which no organisation had claimed responsibility by Monday morning – struck at two busy junctions in the heart of the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have confirmed 300 people died in the blast. The death toll will still be higher because some people are still missing,\u201d Abdikadir Abdirahman, the director of the city\u2019s ambulance service, told Reuters on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Aden Nur, a doctor at the city\u2019s Madina hospital, said they had recorded 258 deaths while Ahmed Ali, a nurse at the nearby Osman Fiqi hospital, told Reuters five bodies had been sent there.<\/div>\n

Nur said 160 of the bodies could not be recognized. \u201c(They)were buried by the government yesterday. The others were buried by their relatives. Over a hundred injured were also brought here,\u201d he told Reuters at the hospital.<\/p>\n

Some of the injured were being evacuated by air to Turkey for treatment, officials said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Locals visiting their injured relatives or collecting their bodies filled every available space in Madina hospital.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMy last time to speak with my brother was some minutes before the blast occurred. By then he told me, he was on the way to meet and was passing at K5,\u201d Halima Nur, a local mother, told Reuters, referring to one of the junctions that was struck.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am afraid he was among the unrecognized charred bodies that were buried yesterday. I have no hope of getting him alive or dead. But I cannot go home.\u201d<\/p>\n

DEADLIEST SINCE INSURGENCY BEGAN<\/h3>\n

Saturday bomb attacks were the deadliest since Islamist militant group al Shabaab began an insurgency in 2007.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Neither it nor any other group had claimed responsibility, but al Shabaab, which is allied to al Qaeda, stages regular attacks in the capital and other parts of the country.<\/p>\n

The group is waging an insurgency against Somalia\u2019s U.N.-backed government and its African Union allies in a bid to impose its own strict interpretation of Islam.<\/p>\n

The militants were driven out of Mogadishu in 2011 and have been steadily losing territory since then to the combined forces of AU peacekeepers and Somali security forces.<\/p>\n

But Al Shabaab retains the capacity to mount large, complex bomb attacks. Over the past three years, the number of civilians killed by insurgent bombings has steadily climbed as al Shabaab increases the size of its bombs.<\/p>\n

Some of those seriously injured in Saturday\u2019s bombing were moved by ambulance to the airport on Monday morning to be flown to Turkey for further treatment, Nur added.<\/p>\n

Workers unloaded boxes of medicine and other medical supplies from a Turkish military plane parked on the tarmac, while Turkish medical teams attended to the cases of injuries moved from the hospital for evacuation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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