Truck bomb kills 73 in Somalia’s capital

Bloomberg

More than 73 people died when a truck bomb exploded during rush hour at a busy intersection in Somalia’s capital, police said.
An explosives-laden vehicle hit the taxation office near a junction in Mogadishu, Ahmed Abdi Hussein, a Somali police officer, told Bloomberg News by phone. Another police official said the target was Turkish engineers who were in a vehicle near the intersection, without elaborating how he got the information.
Two Turks were killed in the attack, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency reported, citing Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. The Al-Qaeda-linked militant group al-Shabab last week said they carried out a car bombing that killed eight people in central
Somalia.