An explosives-laden vehicle has detonated at a security checkpoint in the central Somalia city of Beledweyne.
An explosives-laden vehicle detonated Saturday at a security checkpoint in the central city of Beledweyne, killing at least 15 people and wounding 40 others, authorities said.
Abdifatah Mohamed Yusuf, the director-general of the Hirshabelle Ministry of Humanitarian and Disaster Management, confirmed the deaths.
« Twenty of the wounded have been admitted to Beledweyne hospitals, while another 20 are in critical condition, prompting a request for their airlift to Mogadishu for advanced medical treatment, » he said.
