Eighteen killed in a suicide bombing in Somalia

Eighteen people were killed in a double suicide bombing on Thursday night by two suicide bombers who triggered the bomb in a restaurant in the center of the Somali capital Mogadishu, according to a new report Friday gave police told AFP. Four people have died from their injuries, adding to the initial balance of 14 dead Thursday evening given by an official of the Somali security forces, Mohamed Dahir Abdulle. "The number of people killed (in explosions) is now eighteen. Two people died in the night from Thursday to Friday and two more today (Friday)," he told AFP a senior police officer Somali, speaking on condition of anonymity. "A number (of victims) are still in a critical condition," the officer added, without giving further details. The authorities had reported the eve of twenty injured in a serious condition. This new balance of attack in a downtown restaurant recently opened and frequented by a clientele rather easy is the deadliest since the one that targeted a complex ministériek October 4, 2011 by 82 deaths and claimed by Islamist insurgents Shebab. Three Somali journalists were among the victims of the attack Thursday night, perpetrated by two suicide bombers who blew themselves up, one inside the restaurant and the other at the entrance. A total of 13 journalists were murdered or killed in an attack in Somalia since the beginning of the year, according to Reporters Without Borders.