March 2022 Somalia attacks | |
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Part of the Somali Civil War | |
Location | Beledweyne and Aden Adde International Airport, Somalia |
Date | 23 March 2022EAT (UTC+03:00)) | (
Target | Amina Mohamed Abdi, Government of Somalia |
Attack type | Assassination, car bombing, mass murder, suicide bombing |
Weapons | Car bomb, explosive belt, automatic firearm |
Deaths | 48+ |
Perpetrators | Al-Shabaab |
Motive | Islamism |
On 23 March 2022 in Somalia, four coordinated attacks by al-Shabaab jihadists in Mogadishu and Beledweyne killed at least 48 people.