AlQa'dah 7, 1432, Oct 5, 2011, SPA - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday condemned the deadly bombing of a government compound in the Somali capital that has reportedly killed at least 70 people. “The secretary-general is appalled by the vicious suicide bomb attack targeting government offices and ministries in Mogadishu today, which has killed scores of people and injured many more, including, reportedly, students who were inside the education ministry at the time of the attack,” Ban's office said in a statement. “It is incomprehensible that innocents are being senselessly targeted.” Meanwhile, The U.N. special representative for children in armed conflict also condemned the attack. “Children in Somalia suffer daily through war and famine. Those killed and wounded were bravely attempting to further their education despite the situation in Mogadishu,” Radhika Coomaraswamy said in a statement. “The killing of these children is an unspeakable crime.”
