Deadly al-Shabaab suicide bombing hits Somali police camp
Mogadishu — A suicide bomber disguised as a policeman blew himself up inside a police training camp in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Thursday and killed at least 15 officers, officials said. Police spokesman Maj Mohamed Hussein said the attacker had explosives strapped to his body and infiltrated the General Kahiye Police Training Academy during an early morning parade. "So far 15 have died and 17 others were injured," Abdullahi Nur, another police official, told Reuters. Earlier, the head of a local ambulance service said they had moved the bodies of 13 victims as well as 15 injured people. The militant Islamist group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack and gave a higher death toll. "We killed 27 police (officers) and injured more," Abdiasis Abu Musab, the group’s military operations spokesman, told Reuters. Al-Shabaab carries out frequent bombings in Mogadishu and other towns. The group, which is allied to al-Qaeda, is waging an insurgency against the UN-backed gover...
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