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At Least 8 Civilians Killed in Roadside Bomb in Somalia

People gather at the scene of twin car bombs that exploded within moments of each other in the Somali capital Mogadishu, Nov. 9, 2018. (AFP)
People gather at the scene of twin car bombs that exploded within moments of each other in the Somali capital Mogadishu, Nov. 9, 2018. (AFP)
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At Least 8 Civilians Killed in Roadside Bomb in Somalia

People gather at the scene of twin car bombs that exploded within moments of each other in the Somali capital Mogadishu, Nov. 9, 2018. (AFP)
People gather at the scene of twin car bombs that exploded within moments of each other in the Somali capital Mogadishu, Nov. 9, 2018. (AFP)

At least eight civilians were killed on Sunday when a minibus hit a roadside bomb outside the Somalia capital, Mogadishu, police said.

Officer Abdullahi Ahmed said the minibus hit the bomb in the Hawa Abdi area near Mogadishu.

The death toll may rise because many of the surviving passengers were seriously wounded, he added.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast. However Somalia's extremist group al-Shabab, which is allied to al-Qaeda, has carried out a series of bomb attacks in the area in recent months.

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US Sanctions Lebanese Network over Alleged Oil, LPG Smuggling for Hezbollah

A bronze seal for the Department of the Treasury is shown at the US Treasury building in Washington, US, January 20, 2023. (Reuters)
A bronze seal for the Department of the Treasury is shown at the US Treasury building in Washington, US, January 20, 2023. (Reuters)
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US Sanctions Lebanese Network over Alleged Oil, LPG Smuggling for Hezbollah

A bronze seal for the Department of the Treasury is shown at the US Treasury building in Washington, US, January 20, 2023. (Reuters)
A bronze seal for the Department of the Treasury is shown at the US Treasury building in Washington, US, January 20, 2023. (Reuters)

The Biden administration on Wednesday issued sanctions on a Lebanese network it accused of smuggling oil and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to help fund the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.

The sanctions target three people, five companies and two vessels that the US Treasury Department said were overseen by a senior leader of Hezbollah's finance team and used profits from illicit LPG shipments to Syria to aid generate revenue for the Iran-backed party.

Acting Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Bradley Smith, in a statement, said Hezbollah "continues to launch rockets into Israel and fuel regional instability, choosing to prioritize funding violence over taking care of the people it claims to care about, including the tens of thousands displaced in southern Lebanon."