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00:00 Deadly blasts erupted at an open-air market in Somalia's capital on Tuesday.
00:06 The Bokara market is Mogadishu's biggest, usually teeming with traders and residents
00:12 buying food, clothes, medicines and electronics.
00:15 But now many shops are in ruins and lives have been lost.
00:22 One trader, Hassan Ali, said he had counted 10 dead bodies and at least 15 others injured.
00:29 His shop, he said, was completely destroyed after four explosions in the centre of the
00:35 market.
00:36 Three nurses at Erdogan Hospital in Mogadishu reported that over 20 injured people had been
00:41 brought to the facility.
00:45 It was not immediately clear who was responsible, though al-Shabaab militants frequently carry
00:49 out bombings in the country.
00:51 The jihadist group has been battling Somalia's federal government and an African Union-mandated
00:56 peacekeeping force for years, seeking to establish a new government based on its own interpretation
01:02 of Sharia law.
01:06 The government was not immediately available for comment.
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