Four local footballers in Somalia were killed when a powerful explosion ripped through their bus on Friday in what the country
Ten players from the Jubaland Chamber of Commerce and Industry club were heading off for a game at the Kismayo city stadium in southern Somalia when the blast hit."The players were riding in a bus when the explosion went off, presumably inside the vehicle. There are investigations going on but we presume the device was planted onto the bus," said police officer Mohamed Sadiq.
In a statement on Twitter, Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed condemned the"barbaric terrorist attack that claimed the lives of innocent Somali sportspeople"."People rushed to remove the dead bodies and wounded players," he said.
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