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Al Shabaab claims deadly car bomb outside Mogadishu military base

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A car bomb targeting senior officials leaving a military base in Mogadishu killed at least 15 people and destroyed a minibus carrying civilians, the Somali military said on Sunday.

Al Shabaab
, which is carrying out increasingly deadly bombings despite losing most of its territory to African Union peacekeepers supporting the Somali government, was behind the attack; Abdias is Abu Musab, the Islamist militant group’s spokesman for military operations said.

The suicide car bomb was targeting senior military officials.

“Their car turned a minute before the blast,” Major Abdikadir Hussein, military official, told Reuters.

“A mini-bus carrying civilians was also destroyed. We cannot give the exact figure of casualties, but many civilians died in the attack,”
Hussein added.

Somalia‘s president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed replaced his security chiefs last week and called on al Shabaab fighters to surrender within 60 days in return for education and jobs.

– By REUTERS

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