At 4:30pm on 22 March 2018, a

car bomb A car bomb, bus bomb, lorry bomb, or truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), is an improvised explosive device designed to be detonated in an automobile or other vehicles. Car bombs can be roughly divided ...

exploded outside Wehliye hotel on Maka Al-Mukarrama Road in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing 18 people. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the bombing, saying that they targeted a meeting of government and security officials.

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