International Desk: The death toll from a twin car bomb attack in central Somalia has risen to 35 and another 40 people were injured in this incident.
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The attack in the town of Mahas in the Hiran region was the latest in a series by the Al-Qaeda affiliate since government forces and allied clan militias began pushing the insurgents out of territory they had long held.
Al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement, saying it targeted "apostate militias and soldiers".
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Hasan-Kafi Mohammad Ibrahim, deputy police commissioner of the country's Hirshabel province, said that most of the victims were civilians, including women and children. Only one child from a family of nine survived the attack. Others also lost half their family members.
Mumin Mohammad Halan, Mahas District Commissioner, said a bomb was thrown at his house. Another hit the home of a federal lawmaker.
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Al-Shabaab, an affiliate of al-Qaeda, has been fighting Somalia's government for more than a decade. This militant group wants to establish an Islamic regime in Somalia.
Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has declared “all-out war” against Al-Shabab, which has been waging a bloody insurgency against the fragile internationally-backed federal government for 15 years.
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On October 29, 121 people in the capital Mogadishu were killed in two car bomb explosions at the education ministry, in the deadliest attack in the troubled Horn of Africa nation in five years.
Eight civilians died on November 27 in a 21-hour siege at a hotel in Mogadishu popular with politicians and government officials.
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