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Bombing In Somalia Kills Hundreds; Death Toll Expected To Rise

At least 230 people were killed and hundreds more were injured Saturday in an attack in Mogadishu.
Somali soldiers patrol on the scene of the explosion of a truck bomb in the center of Mogadishu, on Oct. 15, 2017. A truck bomb exploded outside a hotel at a busy junction in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Oct. 14, 2017, causing widespread devastation / MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB / Getty Images

Update: 12 p.m., ET

The death toll from a truck bomb in Somalia's capital has risen above 200 with more than 275 injured. But Information Minister Abdirahman Yarisow told NPR that is a "conservative number."

Officials described the deadly bombing

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