A bomb attack has killed 23 people, including students,
graduates and three cabinet ministers - among them the Minister for
Higher Education Ibrahim Hassan Adow - at a graduation ceremony of
the medical school of Benadir University in Mogadishu, capital of
war-torn Somalia. Also killed were Education Minister Ahmed
Abdullahi Wayeel and Health Minister Qamar Aden Ali.
Minister of Interior, Abdulkadir Ali Omar, said the government had
leads on the identity of the perpetrators but would withhold names
until the investigation had been completed. Local sources said the
Islamist group Al-Shabab was being blamed for the attack, but it
has denied responsibility.
The graduating students were only the second class to receive
medical diplomas in almost two decades. Benadir University was
established in 2002 by a group of Somali doctors whose goal was to
train medical graduates to replace those who had fled or been
killed in the civil war, and to treat victims of the seemingly
endless violence. [bron: University World News]