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List of recent bombings in Somalia
2017
Oct. 14 – Two massive car bombs at the K5 junction and in Madina district of Mogadishu kill at least 250 people.
Sept. 28 – A car bomb outside of a popular restaurant killed seven people.
Sept. 20 – A Somali intelligence official was assassinated after a bomb fitted into his car exploded in Mogadishu.
Sept. 11 – Car bomb killed one and injured four near a cafe and hotel on Maka al Mukarama street.
Aug. 27 – Car bomb injured two on Maka al Mukarama street.
Aug. 14 – An IED fitted under a taxi killed at least one near the Jazeera Palace hotel.
Aug. 10 – A suicide bomber was stopped at a security checkpoint on Maka al Mukarama street and fled the scene. The car bomb would later detonate killing one civilian and wounding three others.
Aug. 4 – Four people were killed and six others wounded in a car bomb that targeted the Ambassador Hotel on Maka al Mukarama street.
July 30 – Five soldiers were killed by a car bomb near a security checkpoint on Maka al Mukarama street.
July 29 – 12 UPDF were killed by Alshabab at Goryowein along Bulu-mater & Beladamin
June 20 – Six people were killed when a car bomb went off near a local government administration office in Mogadishu’s Wadajir district.
June 14 – Eleven people were killed near a popular restaurant and hotel in a Shabaab suicide assault involving one suicide car bomb.
May 24 – Eight people were killed and 15 others wounded in a car bomb targeting a police checkpoint.
May 17 – A car bomb was intercepted and later accidentally detonated killing three and wounding two others.
May 8 – A popular cafe on Maka al Mukarama street was hit by a car bomb leaving five dead and 10 others wounded.
April 9 – 15 Somali soldiers were killed, including several high-ranking officers, and 20 others were wounded when their convoy passed a Shabaab car bomb.
April 5 – Eight people were killed outside the Ministry of Youth and Sports headquarters by a car bomb.
March 24 – A car bomb targeted a popular cafe and hotel near the presidential palace.
March 21 – Ten people were killed and 12 others wounded when a massive car bomb detonated at a security checkpoint.
March 13 – A Somali military base in Mogadishu was targeted, killing three and wounding five.
March 13 – On the same day, a popular hotel was also hit leaving six dead.
February 28 – A Somali government official was killed in an assassination after an IED fitted under the driver’s seat of his car exploded.
February 19 – A massive car bomb targeted a market killing at least 30 people.
January 25 – At least 25 people were killed in a Shabaab suicide assault on the Somali Parliament building. Two suicide car bombs were used in the assault.
January 4 – Three UN soldiers were wounded near its headquarters in Mogadishu.
January 2 – Two suicide car bombs targeted a security checkpoint near the airport and a hotel.
2016
2016: June 1-25 – 30 civilians killed in South Somalia in twin bomb attacks.
2016: January 21 – over 25 people were killed at a beach popular with local Somalis near Mogadishu when five al-Shabaab militants attacked.
2015
September 1 – Al Shabaab militants said they had killed 70 AMISOM soldiers at the Janale base, 90km (55 miles) south-west of the capital.
2015: February – Al Shabaab carries out several violent assaults in Somalia at a busy junction and a nearby restaurant in the town of Baidoa, killing at least 55 people.
2015: February 20: Al-Shabaab militants launch a surprise attack on the Central Hotel in Mogadishu; a suicide bomber also blows himself up within the complex and 20 people are reportedly killed in the attack
2014
2014: November 1 – Al-Shabaab attacks Sahafi Hotel in Mogadishu, kills at least 15 people
2014: December 5 – Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for a twin attack in Baidoa that killed at least 19 people
2013
January 11: Al-Shabaab fighters kill intelligence officer Denis Allex and two other French soldiers in a botched rescue attempt by French forces.
January 29: a suicide bombing on the president’s compound killed many people.
April 14: terrorist attacks in Mogadishu killed 28 people
September 21: Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the Westgate centre shooting, an armed attack in a Nairobi shopping mall. The insurgent group asserts that its militants shot around 100 people in retaliation for the deployment of Kenyan troops in Somalia, with the Kenyan Red Cross confirming 62 fatalities and over 120 injuries.
