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Four soccer players were killed and several others injured when a bomb attack on Friday targeted a bus carrying a local soccer team in the Somali port city of Kismayo, an official said. Anadolu Agency reported.
Omar Hussain, a local police officer in Kismayo, said Anadolu Agency that it appeared to be a roadside bombing, adding that further investigation is underway.
The injured were taken to hospitals in Kismayo, he added.
Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed condemned the attack, for which he blamed al-Shabaab terrorists, and offered his condolences to the families of the players.
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“The Somali president has expressed his condolences for the deaths of the young players who were killed by al-Shabaab terrorists in Kismayo,” said a presidential statement broadcast on Somali state television.
Kismayo, the administrative capital of the southern state of Jubaland, is a large port city located 500 kilometers (310 miles) southwest of the capital Mogadishu.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Somali terror group al-Shabaab had owned many recent attacks in the Horn of Africa country.
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