Blast in Somalia kills 34 in Mogadishu marketplace

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia’s new president visited victims wounded by the Mogadishu car bomb that on Sunday killed 34. President Mohamed Abdulahi Mohamed offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of those who planned the blast.
The explosion hit a busy marketplace in the western part of the capital, said police Capt. Mohamed Hussein.
“It was a horrific and barbaric attack only aimed at killings civilians,” he said from the scene of the blast.