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Blast in Somalia Kills 34 in Mogadishu Marketplace

A man walks past the wreckage of shops destroyed by a blast in a market in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017. A Somali police officer says a blast at a busy market in the western part of Somalia's capital tore through shops and food stands and killed more than a dozen people and wounded many others.
Photographer: Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Images
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Mogadishu, Somalia (AP) -- Somalia's new president visited victims wounded by the Mogadishu car bomb that on Sunday killed

34. President Mohamed Abdulahi Mohamed offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of those who planned the blast.