Atleast 500 persons have been killed or seriously injured in a truck bomb attack in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.
This remains one the deadliest terror attacks anywhere in the world in the last few years.
The death toll from Saturday's attack, which involved a truck packed with several hundred kilograms of military-grade and homemade explosives, stands at 239.
The toll is expected to rise as more bodies are dug from the rubble spread over an area hundreds of metres wide in the centre of the city. At least 300 people were injured.
Rescue workers on the ground said it would be difficult to establish a definitive death toll because the intense heat generated by the blast meant the remains of many people would never be found.
Authorities had been following the truck and were about to search it at a checkpoint, when the truck driver triggered the explosion.
Islamist terror group, Al Shabab, have been fighting to overthrow the Internationally-backed government based in the capital, even though they have been chased out of big towns and the capital by AU forces.