UN chief condems attacks on Police station in Somalia

United Nations: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday strongly condemned the deadly attacks on a police station in Somalia, saying that these terrorist acts “have caused tremendous suffering”.

“These acts of terrorism against the government and people of Somalia have caused tremendous suffering,” said the statement.

Suicide car bomb hit the gate of the police station in the central Somali town of Beledweyne, the provincial capital of central Somalia region of Hiran, a commercial hub that connect Southern and Northern Somalia.

Beledweyne, is 300 km North of Mogadishu, is a base for the Djiboutian contingent of the African Union peacekeeping Mission in Somalia, known as AMISOM.