Wounded victims of former Kismayo University attack airlifted to Mogadishu and Nairobi

More than twenty SNA soldiers who sustained serious injuries from Yesterday’s suicide car bomb on the training camp in Kismayo town were airlifted to Mogadishu and Nairobi for treatment.

Somali federal government has airlifted the wounded soldiers who survived in Kismayo attack to Somalia’s capital city for further treatment.

Several other wounded people including SNA commanders and three AMISOM trainers who have been injured in the attacked are expected to flown to Nairobi this morning.

At least 16 people were killed and more than fifty others injured in a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) explosion at former Kismayo University on Saturday.

Al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for the bombing. Despite being forced out of many of their strongholds, the rebels are still able to launch lethal attacks in the capital, Mogadishu, and elsewhere in Somalia.

Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, Al-Shabaab’s spokesman for military operations, said the group was behind the car bomb and claimed there were several casualties.

Al-Shabab has carried out several deadly attacks on Government institutions, army camps and hotels, the group has yesterday only conducted two separate suicide car attacks in Somalia, one in Mogadishu and another at a military training base in the southern port city of Kismayu that claimed lives of more than thirty people.

AMISOM and Somali National Army have been advancing to Al-Shabab controlled areas latest being Bardhere town that used to be the largest stronghold for Al-Shabab’s top officials and its foreign jihadist fighters before they fled after heavy military assault by the Somali government forces and the African Union mission in Somalia [AMISOM] troops.