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MOGADISHU, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- More than 10 people were killed in a bomb explosion which hit a market on Saturday in Mogadishu near a former Somalia air force academy in Mogadishu, police have said.
Police sources said most of the victims of the explosion were civilians and they were yet to establish the number of those injured.
"We have been able to establish so far that more than ten people were killed in the explosion. Somali forces are already on the ground conducting investigations," a police officer named Ahmed Farah told Xinhua.
Witnesses told Xinhua that the explosion ripped through the market causing a mayhem as people scampered for safety.
"There was a huge explosion in the market and we could see a huge smoke followed by gunfire," a witness named Ibrahim Ali told Xinhua.
