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| Mayor of Mogadishu, officials injured in suicide attack on Somalia govt HQ – report | Mayor of Mogadishu, officials injured in suicide attack on Somalia govt HQ – report |
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| A suicide bomb attack on Mogadishu’s government headquarters injured the mayor and several other Somali officials on Wednesday, Reuters reported. | |
| No one immediately claimed responsibility but Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group Al Shabaab, which wants to topple the UN-backed government, is known to carry out such attacks. | |
| “A suicide bomber walked into the meeting hall and blew up himself,” said Mohamed Abdullahi, adding that his cousin and the mayor were among the officials injured. | “A suicide bomber walked into the meeting hall and blew up himself,” said Mohamed Abdullahi, adding that his cousin and the mayor were among the officials injured. |
| Somalia has been devastated by conflict since 1991 after warlords overthrew a dictator, and then began fighting each other. |