August 2020 Mogadishu bombing | |
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Part of the Somali Civil War | |
Location | Mogadishu, Somalia |
Date | 8 August 2020 |
Target | Military base |
Attack type | Suicide car bombing |
Weapons | Bomb |
Deaths | 8 (+1) |
Injured | 14 |
Perpetrators | Al-Shabaab |
The August 2020 Mogadishu bombing was a suicide car bombing on 8 August 2020 at the gates of the 12th April Army Brigade military base close to the recently reopened Mogadishu sports stadium in the Warta Nabadda district of Mogadishu.[1][2] The attack killed at least eight people and wounded fourteen others.[3] The jihadist group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack.[4]