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Unidentified gunmen attacked a passenger bus, killing six people and wounding 19 others, near Jowhar, 90 km north of Mogadishu, on Sunday night, humanitarian sources in Jowhar, the capital of the Middle Shabelle Region, in south-central Somalia, told IRIN. According to sources, the heavily armed gunmen fired indiscriminately at the bus in the Mahadday area, some 20 km north of Jowhar. The wounded were taken to Jowhar hospital, and the more serious cases were sent to Mogadishu, sources said.
The motive for the attack is unclear. According to one of the sources, the attackers did not rob the passengers. “So it does not look like a banditry attack,” he told IRIN. Although it was believed that the attack was clan-based, no-one had claimed responsibility for it so far, the source said.
The bus was on its way to Hiran Region, in central Somalia, and belonged to the Hawadle sub-clan of the main Hawiye clan. The attack took place in an area occupied by the Abgal, another Hawiye sub-clan.
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