The president of Somalia has made a desperate appeal for assistance from abroad for the injured victims of the weekend's deadly car bombs, which left 120 people dead.
On Monday, bulldozers were still removing debris from the bomb site in the capital Mogadishu in search of any victims that may have been buried under the debris.
The Al-Shabab organization claimed responsibility for the attack on Saturday, which left more than 300 people injured and was the bloodiest in the fragile Horn of Africa nation in five years. The explosions tore through walls and shattered windows of nearby buildings, sending shrapnel flying and plumes of smoke and dust into the air.
“We appeal for the international community, Somali brothers, and other Muslim brothers and or partners to send doctors to Somalia to help the hospitals treat the wounded people,” President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said in a statement on Sunday.
He warned that the death toll could rise, as ill-equipped hospitals were swamped.
Somalia has been mired in chaos since the fall of president Siad Barre’s military regime in 1991 and has one of the world’s weakest health systems after decades of conflict.
On Monday, bulldozers were still removing debris from the bomb site in the capital Mogadishu in search of any victims that may have been buried under the debris.
The Al-Shabab organization claimed responsibility for the attack on Saturday, which left more than 300 people injured and was the bloodiest in the fragile Horn of Africa nation in five years. The explosions tore through walls and shattered windows of nearby buildings, sending shrapnel flying and plumes of smoke and dust into the air.
“We appeal for the international community, Somali brothers, and other Muslim brothers and or partners to send doctors to Somalia to help the hospitals treat the wounded people,” President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said in a statement on Sunday.
He warned that the death toll could rise, as ill-equipped hospitals were swamped.
Somalia has been mired in chaos since the fall of president Siad Barre’s military regime in 1991 and has one of the world’s weakest health systems after decades of conflict.
