3 killed, 14 injured in Somalia blast
Mogadishu (Somalia), Sep 2 : Three soldiers were killed and 14 persons injured after a suicide bomber attacked a government office here on Sunday, police said.
The blast also damaged nearby houses, blew off the roof of a mosque and caused a nearby school to collapse, BBC reported. Police officer Abdullahi Hussein said a suicide bomber had rammed a car into the district office in Howlwadag district.
The militant group al-Shabab, which has waged an insurgency for more than 10 years, has claimed to be behind the attack.
In a similar incident on July 14, seven people were killed and several others injured in two explosions near the presidential palace in Mogadishu.
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US VP JD Vance says Lebanon not part of ceasefire, calls it ‘misunderstanding’
Budapest/Washington: US Vice President J D Vance has said that Lebanon was never included in the ceasefire understanding with Iran, describing the confusion as a “legitimate misunderstanding”.
Speaking to reporters before departing from Hungary, Vance said, “I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon and it just didn’t. We never made that promise.”
He stressed that the United States had not included Lebanon in the scope of the ceasefire at any stage.
His remarks come amid continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon, where more than 200 people were reported killed, even as ceasefire talks between Iran and the US move forward.
Vance said Israel had “offered … to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful”.
He warned that if Iran allows the situation in Lebanon to affect the negotiations, it could derail the talks.
“If Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that’s ultimately their choice,” he said.
