2025 Mogadishu military base bombing
| 2025 Mogadishu military base bombing | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Somali Civil War | |
A CCTV still of the explosion | |
| Location | Damaanyo military base, Hodan, Mogadishu, Somalia |
| Date | 18 May 2025 c.9:20 a.m. (EAT) |
| Target | Recruits |
Attack type | Suicide bombing |
| Weapon | Bomb |
| Deaths | 21 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 15 |
| Perpetrator | Al-Shabaab |
No. of participants | 1 |
| Motive | Terrorism |
On 18 May 2025, an Al-Shabaab suicide bomber killed at least 20 people, 15 recruits and five civilians nearby, outside the gates of Damaanyo military base where hundreds of young men had been lined up to enlist in the Somali National Army in Hodan neighbourhood of Mogadishu. Another 15 others were seriously injured in the bombing, including some critically, and the death toll is expected to rise due to the severity of the injuries.