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Mogadishu Truck Bomb's Death Toll Now Tops 500, Probe Committee Says

An updated death toll in what Somalis have described as their 9/11 has risen.
A picture taken on Oct. 15 at the scene of the first explosion in the Oct. 14 Mogadishu terrorist attacks.

The death toll in what Somalis have described as their 9/11 has risen even higher.

On Oct. 20, the government said the toll had reached 358, making it Somalia's deadliest terrorist attack ever. The Zobe Rescue Committee, created by the Somali government in

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