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A VBIED targeted the Somalia Parliament gate facing Sayidka Junction of (Hawl-Wadaag and Wardhiigley Districts) in the morning of 05/07. Reports indicate that the VBIED (Toyota NOAH) driven by a suicide bomber was targeting the parliament and when the security guards, including AMISOM, stopped at the gate to be checked prompting the explosion. Meanwhile the parliament was in a session when the attack took place and the MPs were been evacuated safely. Five people -two of them children from Sayidka IDPs - were killed. Al Shabaab claimed the attack, claiming 32 deaths. |