Double bombing in Somalia leaves 20 dead

The scene of a suicide bombing in Somalia in July of 2016.
(Image credit: Mohamed Abdiwahab/Getty Images)

A pair of bombings in the semi-autonomous state of Puntland in Somalia on Sunday killed about 20 people and injured around 30 more. Both explosions were suicide attacks with vehicle bombs, one of which rammed the gate of a government building while the other targeted a marketplace.

"There were two huge bombs," said Halima Ismail, who lives in the area where the attack took place. "The first one was a truck bomb, followed a minute or so [later] by another car bomb. My brother was injured at the scene."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.