At least 231 people were killed and hundreds were injured after being attacked by huge truck bombs on Saturday.
The Somalian government blamed the attack on Al-Shabaab, a radical group linked to Al Qaeda, and called it the deadliest country of all time.
The explosion occurred outside the safari hotel, and rescuers dug up the ruins of the collapsed buildings overnight in search of survivors. Witnesses described a devastating scene of mass murder, with doctors furiously struggling to participate in the dead and injured, and many burned down.
“The hospital was overwhelmed by death and injuries,” Mohamed Yusuf, director of the Medina Hospital located near the explosion. Tell Associated Press. “We also received people whose limbs were cut off by bombs. It was really scary, unlike any other time in the past.”
Photos and videos of the bombing took place on a busy street in the city’s foreign embassy, showing walls falling down, twisted metal and sporadic fires emitting smoke. The Katari government said its embassy was “hardly damaged” during the strike.
Truck bombing in Mogadishu is by far the deadliest in Somalia that has been in conflict. Here are the other major attacks: https://t.co/ownezlqslj pic.twitter.com/hxuasa85q2
– AFP Africa (@afpafrica) October 15, 2017
The family searched the wreckage and waited in the local hospital in hopes of finding relatives who survived the bombing.
Somalia President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed announced three-day condolences. The attacks were internationally condemned, including those from the United States.
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