Badade — A grenade attack at a house in Somalia’s third largest strategic town of Baidoa has left one dead and three injured late on Thursday night, according to witnesses and police officials.
Police in turn blamed the explosion on the Shebab, with police Chief Mahad Abdirahman saying the group had tried to kill innocent people in the house, but survived the attack.
“As we know One person died and 3 people were wounded when a grenade was thrown by unknown attackers into a house in the heart of Baidoa last at about 08:30 pm local time,” a witness said.
Mr. Abdirahman told the press that the security forces have managed to take into custody some of the perpetrators after conducting heavy operations at the scene of the blast.
No group has yet claimed the responsibility for the attack.
Source Allafrica