Somali militants attacked the presidential convoy

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Photo: REUTERS/Feisal Omar
Bomb blast near president's residence in          Somalia

BY ADAMU ALIYU NGULDE, MAIDUGURI AMINATOU ALKASSOUM AGADEZ

Al-Shabaab militants attacked Somali                President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's                motorcade with a bomb in Mogadishu.

Two senior government and military                  officials told Reuters that President                   Mohamud was safe after the attack. 
     
Presidential advisor Zakariye Hussein also       posted on X that Mohamud was "good and       well on his way to the front lines."

Witnesses, including soldiers and local residents, confirmed that the president's convoy was attacked.  
A Reuters journalist at the scene saw four bodies near the presidential palace.

Al-Shabaab claimed in a Telegram statement that their fighters attacked a convoy carrying Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as it left the presidential palace for the airport.

Although al-Shabaab frequently attacks Somalia as part of its long-running campaign to overthrow the government, Tuesday's attack was the first to directly target President Mohamud since a 2014 attack on a hotel where he was speaking during his first term.

Hours after Tuesday's attack, state media showed the president in Somalia's Middle Shabelle region's Adan Yabal district, where government forces are fighting a three-week-long al-Shabaab offensive.




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