MOGADISHU, Somalia – The capital of Somalia, Mogadishu was hit by a deafening explosion on Saturday night, shattering a relative calm, police said.
The blast from an IED attached to the wall of a house belonging a Somali military official happened in Hodon District during the midnight.
The SNA officer escaped unhurt from the attempted assassination, according to police sources who didn’t want to be named.
The attack comes amid relative calm in the capital following routine operations by security forces and the country’s intelligence agency NISA.
After defeat in battlefield last, Al-Shabaab ramped up attacks in the capital in revenge for the all-out war spearheaded by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.
The SNA along with local clan militia recaptured nearly 100 villages from Al-Shabaab since last year, the biggest victory in the fighting against the group for years.
