Suicide bomber kills 4 people in Somalia’s capital NAIROBI, Kenya >> A suicide car bomber blew himself up near a moving convoy of Somalia’s U.S.-trained elite forces in Mogadishu, killing at least four people, a Somali police officer said Sunday. Somali militant group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack, according to the group’s Radio Andulus. The attack on the airport road in the capital killed mostly pedestrians walking along the road, said Capt. Mohamed Hussein. Mohamed Yusuf, the spokesman of Somalia’s National Security Ministry, said the government had information about the attack, and the car bomb was detonated while the attacker was being pursued. “We shall continue preventing such attacks, however we ask people to work with us,” he told reporters in Mogadishu. The Alpha Group troops are part of Somalia’s intelligence forces and often carry out operations against militants in Somalia. Al-Shabab is an ultra-conservative Islamic militant group that is linked to the al-Qaida terrorist network and wants to run Somalia by its strict interpretation of Shariah law. Despite militants suffering huge losses in recent years, including the killing of their leader in a U.S. airstrike earlier this year, al-Shabab remains a threat. Al-Shabab leader Ahmed Godane was killed in a U.S. airstrike in September. African Union [...] newsinca/suicide-bomber-kills-4-people-in-somalias-capital/
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 22:00:50 +0000
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