モガディシュ：連発自動車爆弾で100名超死亡

　今日はもうノートを閉じようと思ったらこんなニュースが。

BBC Somalia Mogadishu bombings: Twin blasts kill 100 in capital 30 Oct 2022

　2連発自動車爆弾で100名以上の死亡。負傷者300名。国際的な医療支援が求められる。

「Twin car bomb explosions near a busy junction in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, killed at least 100 people, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud says.

Among the victims "who were massacred [were] mothers with their children in their arms", the AFP news agency quotes the president as saying.

He appealed for international medical help to deal with the 300 injured.」

　むろん、犯行はal-Shababによるもの。

「The pro-jihadist Somali Memo website has reported that the group has said it was behind the blasts.」

　二連発というのも、10~20年ほど前にイラクでよくやってたようなあれ。一発目をドカンとして、救助等々に集まってきた人々をめがけて二発目をドカンと。

「The first hit the education ministry and then the second went off as medical teams arrived to deal with the aftermath, the Reuters news agency reports.」

「A lorry exploded at the same junction almost exactly five years ago, leaving more than 500 people dead - the worst such attack in the country's history.」

「Among those killed were a prominent journalist and senior police officer.」

　爆発の名所、みたいなところだが。こうして教育省を狙った爆弾で、有名ジャーナリストや警察の上級指揮官も仕留めたそうだ。