Head of Somalia's Military Unhurt, Civilian Killed in Suicide Car Bomb
MOGADISHU - The head of Somalia's military
escaped unhurt and one civilian was killed on Monday when a suicide attacker
drove a bomb-laden car into a convoy in the capital Mogadishu, according to a
military spokesman and an ambulance service.
The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab group said it was
behind the attack.
General Yusuf Rage was driving in the convoy near
the military hospital in Mogadishu's Hodan district when the blast struck,
Colonel Abdiqani Ali, the military spokesman said.
"The commander's guards opened fire on the suicide car bomb as it speedily tried to swerve into the convoy. The bomber was shot dead and his car bomb exploded. The commander and his guards escaped unhurt," he said.
Mogadishu's Aamin Ambulance service said it had
collected the body of one civilian.
Al-Shabab's military operations spokesman
Abdiasis Abu Musab said in a statement: "We conducted a martyrdom
operation in Mogadishu. The target was a military convoy escorting senior
apostate commanders."
Since 2008, the Islamist militant group has been
fighting to overthrow the central government and establish its rule based on
its own harsh interpretation of Islam's Sharia law.
VOA
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