Slaughter
The truck bomb in Mogadishu yesterday killed at least 230 people.
Hundreds more were wounded when a lorry packed with explosives detonated near the entrance of a hotel.
It is the deadliest terror attack in Somalia since the Islamist al-Shabab group launched its insurgency in 2007.
It is not clear who staged the bombing, but Mogadishu is a target for al-Shabab militants battling the government.
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A BBC Somali reporter at the scene of the main blast said the Safari Hotel had collapsed, with people trapped under the rubble.
An eyewitness, local resident Muhidin Ali, told news agency AFP it was “the biggest blast I have ever witnessed, it destroyed the whole area”.
Meanwhile, the director of the Madina Hospital, Mohamed Yusuf Hassan, said he was shocked by the scale of the attack.
“Seventy-two wounded people were admitted to the hospital and 25 of them are in very serious condition. Others lost their hands and legs at the scene.”
Ad maiorem dei gloriam.
Eat that, Breiivk. And choke.
That is appalling. Those poor people.
And, regardless of the BBC blaming lorries and bombs as if they have agency, another example of male violence. When men want power, they’ll stop at nothing to get it. And if they can be convinced that a deity supports their lust, no edicts in their holy scriptures against bad behaviour will deter them from committing the most appalling crimes.
P.S. Don’t ‘Not All Men’ here; we all know that already. But if we don’t name every single one of these incidents correctly, we’ll always be left unable to describe the problem, let alone discover a solution.
Does God Hate Women? in a nutshell.