2024 Mogadishu market bombing
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Mogadishu, Somalia
| 2024 Mogadishu market bombing | |
|---|---|
| Part of Somali Civil War (2009–present) | |
 The Bakaara Market in 2005 | |
| Native name | Weeraradii Suuqa Bakaaraha |
| Location | 2°2′56.04″N 45°19′12″E / 2.0489000°N 45.32000°E Mogadishu, Somalia |
| Date | 6 February 2024 |
| Target | Bakaara Market |
Attack type | Bombings |
| Deaths | 10 |
| Injured | 20+ |
| Perpetrators |  Al-Shabaab suspected.[1] |
On 6 February 2024, four bombings inside the Bakaara Market in the Somali capital Mogadishu killed at least ten people and injured over twenty others.[2]
The market targeted sold goods, services, firearms and daily essentials such as petrol, food, wheat, medicine, clothes and electronics.[3] The market also is famous for illicit activities, such as selling forged passports, forged university diplomas and forged birth certificates.[4] The victims of the bombings were sent to the Erdoğan Hospital.[5]
The Bakaara Market is a popular market in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. The market has been targeted in an attack at least once before by the militant group Al-Shabaab during the civil war on October 15, 2009, in which 20 people were killed and 58 others were injured after a shelling attack.
Bombings
At around 2:50 p.m. a series of bombings occurred in four places at the center of the crowded market. The first bombing killed two employees, followed by the other bombings, which killed eight shoppers and workers.[1]
Aftermath
Ten people were killed in the bombings. Over twenty people who were injured during the bombings were admitted to the Erdoğan Hospital facility, according to three nurses. No group claimed responsibility for the bombings, although Al-Shabaab is suspected.[6]
