Mahas bombings

On 4 January 2023, an al-Shabaab double car bombing killed 35 people in Mahas District, Hiran, Somalia.

Background
The Somali Civil War began in the early 1990s. Al-Shabaab are a Somali jihadist group who began an insurgency in 2006.

Bombings
On 4 January 2023, a double car bombing occurred in Mahas District in Hiran, in central Somalia. The first targeted politicians' houses, and the second a market. Later the same day, al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attacks.