Mahas bombings
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The Somali Civil War began in the early 1990s. Al-Shabaab are a Somali jihadist group who began an insurgency in 2006.
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On 4 January 2023, a double car bombing occurred in Mahas District in Hiran, in central Somalia. The first targeted politicians' houses, and the second a market. Later the same day, al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attacks.
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