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Suicide bomber kills three in Mogadishu restaurant attack
[STUFF.CO.NZ] A jacket wallah attacked a popular restaurant in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, on Saturday (Sunday NZ Time), killing himself and at least three others, Somali police said.The attacker, dressed in a business suit over a boom jacket, detonated the bomb after entering the Village Restaurant, which is opposite Somalia's National Theatre, police said. "So far, three civilians are dead," Major Nur Ali, a police brass hat, told Rooters. In comments on state radio, Somalia's information minister, Mohammed Abdi Hayir, blamed the attack on al-Shabaab  ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... , the al Qaeda-aligned Islamist holy warriors who wage frequent attacks in the capital as part of a campaign to bring down the Western-backed Somali government. "The al-Shabaab suicide bomber did not cause many casualties," he said, adding that most of the people in the restaurant were able to escape before the bomb exploded. A front man for the group could not be reached for comment. Saturday's (Sunday NZT) attack marked the third time suicide bombers have attacked the restaurant, On Friday (Saturday NZT), al-Shabaab holy warriors attacked a cop shoppe in the capital, and police said that three of them were killed. Police showed journalists pictures of the dead, but al-Shabaab denied they had lost anyone in the attack.
Posted by: Fred 2016-01-03 |
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