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Sunday, May 24, 2020
Five dead in blast during Somalia Eid festivities
At least five people are killed and more than 20 injured in Somalia in a blast during festivities to mark the Eid al-Fitr festival.
“The initial information we have received indicates the dead bodies of five people were collected from the scene of the blast and more than twenty others have been wounded,” police officer Mohamed Muktar tells AFP by phone from Baidoa, about 250 kilometers (150 miles) west of the capital Mogadishu.
The Muslim world is celebrating the Eid al-Fitr festival which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
— AFP