The death toll of twin blasts in southwest Somalia's Baidoa city on Friday evening has risen from 11 to 14 after three more people died in hospital, local hospital said Saturday.
Nurto Mohamed, a nurse in Baidoa hospital, confirmed that three casualties out of 35 submitted to the hospital died overnight Friday and made the number of death toll to 14.
The attack, which targeted a pretty populated restaurant and Hotel in Baidoa city, 240 km south of the capital Mogadishu, sparked anger from the Somalia Federal and regional leaders.
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud condemned the Baidoa restaurant attack and ordered quick investigation to bring the masterminds to justice.
In a press statement from the presidential press office, the president called the Baidoa twin blasts "A terror act" and insisted that it shows how anti-peace elements in Somalia are desperate.
"This awful suicide attack targeted to innocent civilians in a restaurant shows us the dimention of the hostility of those against peace and stability," President Mohamud said in the statement.
"I pray for those who lost their lives in the attack to rest in peace in the paradise and those wounded to get quick recovery," he added.
The president sent condolence to the families, friends, the people of Baidoa and the entire people of Somalia for the loss of the lives in the attack.
The newly inaugurated leader of the Interim South West State Administration Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan also condemned the twin attacks that simultaneously hit his town and called the people to remain calm and work with the security forces investigating the attack.
Sheikh Adan, speaking to the media in Mogadishu, said, "I strongly condemn the awful and painful suicide attack targeted to my fellow people in Baidoa, the innocent civilians of Baidoa."
Three journalists working for local TVs were among the 14 death and another 3 journalists are in the hospital for medical treatment.
This is the first such attack in Baidoa in the last six months, but on Wednesday last week, a car laden with explosive devices targeted a UN convoy in the vicinity of Mogadishu's Adan Adde international airport and left 4 people dead.