Staff Writers
Dec 29, 20191 min
By Axmadyare - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42292663
There was an explosion at a security checkpoint in Mogadishu, Somalia on Saturday morning.
A truck bomb exploded killing 78 people and wounding at least 125 people during the morning rush hour.
Police say that a tax collection centre was the intended target.
President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed says that the al-Shabab group is responsible for the attack.
This attack was the worst since a bombing that killed hundreds in 2017.