MOGADISHU (Halbeeg News) – Somali government has launched investigation into the deadly suicide bombing in Jalle Siyad academy, which claimed the lives of over 20 government soldiers.
On Monday, a bomber detonated a suicide vest as the soldiers lined up after breakfast. The soldiers had been recently deployed to Mogadishu for additional training and re-equipping.
According to reliable sources, several top military officials including Colonel Abdullahi Dabow, an infantry operations officer, has been arrested. Dabow was reportedly accused of bringing the suicide bomber into the academy in his car.
The sources further confirmed that the military officials are expected to arraign in court after the conclusion of the investigation.
Meanwhile, the speaker of Somalia’s lower house of Parliament strongly condemned Monday’s bombing of a military base that injured more than 70 others.
Sheikh Adan Mohamed Nur said he suspects “traitors” may have facilitated the bombing.
“I know among the officers there are good, hard-working, dignified people but that traitors have facilitated this. I suspect that a lot. It’s intolerable,” he said in a video posted by state media.
Al-Shabaab group claimed responsibility for the attack. In a statement on Telegram, al-Shabab said one of its suicide bombers carried out the strike.
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