Somali police fire bullets to break up protest against weekend bombing
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Read< 1minuteCivilians carry the dead body of an unidentified man from the scene of an explosion in KM4 street in the Hodan district of Mogadishu, Somalia October 14, 2017. REUTERS
Somali police opened fire to stop a crowd of protesters demonstrating against last weekend’s deadly bombing from accessing the site of the attack, according to a Reuters witness.
The witness heard gunfire shortly after police blocked the demonstrators, who were marching towards the scene of the twin blasts, where more than 300 people were killed.
150 unrecognizable bodies have since been buried and the search for more bodies continues.
The October 26 attack was the deadliest since Islamist militant group Al Shabaab began an insurgency in 2007.
