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November 2016 Mogadishu car bombing

killing 20 people, claimed by Al Shabaab

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ27972884 ↗
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The November Mogadishu car bombing occurred on 26 November 2016. At least 20 people were killed by the explosion of a car bomb near a market in the Somali capital Mogadishu. Medical sources told the AFP news agency that the death toll could be as high as 30.

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The public source identifies “November 2016 Mogadishu car bombing” as killing 20 people, claimed by Al Shabaab. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around November, Mogadishu and bombing.

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This entry incorporates text from “November 2016 Mogadishu car bombing” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.