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Suicide Bomber Kills At Least Six In Beledweyne, Central Somalia
[RADIOSHABELLE] At least 6 people died on Sunday after a jacket wallah went kaboom!in a restaurant just outside a bigwig’s office in the central Somali city of Beledweyne, police and residents said. The al Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab ...  the personification of Somali state failure...group said it was behind the attack. "At least six people died and several others were maimed. A suicide bomber blew up himself in a restaurant," major Hussein Osman, a police officer told Rooters from Beledweyne. The Sunday afternoon blast took place outside the office of the governor of the Hiran region, where he was holding a meeting, police and residents said. "We are behind the attack at the Hiran governor’s headquarters. There are casualties. We targeted the workers of the Hiran administration," said Abdiasis Abu Musab, al-Shabaab’s military operation front man. Posted by: Fred 2017-09-11 |
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