The death toll in an attack on Saturday at a busy intersection in the Somali capital Mogadishu has risen to 100, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said on Sunday.

“So far, the number of dead has reached 100 and 300 wounded, and the number of both dead and wounded continues to rise,” he said after visiting the bombing site.

Two cars laden with explosives were detonated minutes apart near the busy Zobe intersection, followed by gunfire in an attack on Somalia’s Ministry of Education.

The afternoon blasts shattered windows of nearby buildings, threw up shrapnel and clouds of smoke and dust.

The attack took place at the same busy intersection where a truck loaded with explosives exploded on October 14, 2017, killing 512 people and injuring more than 290.

Describing the incident as “story,” Mohamud said, “It’s the same place and the same innocent people are involved.”

“That is not right. God willing, they will not be able to commit another Zobe incident,” he said, referring to the Islamist group al-Shabaab.

The jihadists have been trying to overthrow the fragile, foreign-backed government in Mogadishu for about 15 years.

Its fighters were driven out of the capital by an African Union force in 2011, but the group still controls swaths of land and continues to carry out deadly attacks on civilian and military targets.