At least one soldier was killed and six others injured in Somalia when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a military base in the west of the capital Mogadishu, Somalia’s al Qaeda-allied group al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the bombing.
The suicide bomber had disguised himself as a regular soldier and joined others as they filed into a military base early Sunday before he detonated the explosive, a Somali soldier told the media.
“We lost one soldier and several others were injured. The bomber blew up himself at a check point,” he said.
Al Shabaab claimed it had killed 32 soldiers. They said said they had targeted the base because recruitment activity was being conducted there.
Al Shabaab wants to topple Somalia’s central government and establish its own rule based on its own strict interpretation of Islamic sharia law.
