"The first blast was targeting a restaurant near the main city roundabout where the information we are getting indicates a suicide bomber detonated himself, seven people were killed and more than ten others wounded," said Muktar Adan, a police official in the provincial capital of Baidoa where the blasts took place. Most of the casualties were caused by the bomber who walked into the restaurant with explosives strapped around his waist, Col. Ahmed Muse told The Associated Press. Many of the wounded at Baidoa's main hospital had horrific injuries, nurse Mohamed Isaq told the AP. He added that the most of the casualties were civilians Bay’s information minister Ugas Hassan Ibrahim said that the injured were rushed to the Baidoa Regional Hospital for treatment The militant group, al-Shabaab, claimed responsibility for the attack, through Andalus Radio, its media channel. Baidoa is a key economic center about 250 kilometers (155 miles) west of the capital, Mogadishu, and about the same distance east of the Ethiopian border. Critically wounded people wait to be moved into a FILE - People critically wounded in an Oct. 14 truck bombing wait to be moved into a plane to be airlifted for treatment in Turkey, in Mogadishu, Somalia, Oct, 16, 2017.
Two blasts in the town of Baidoa in Somalia kill at least 15 people and injure more than 30 others.