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
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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.