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Suicide bomber kills three senior military officials in Somalia

Saturday April 28 2018
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Military officers patrol near the site of a major car bomb and gun attack against an intelligence headquarters and detention facility in Mogadishu on August 31, 2014. Three senior military officials have been killed in the Somali town of Galkayo. AFP PHOTO | MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB

By REUTERS

A suicide bomber killed three senior military officials in the Somali town of Galkayo on Saturday, police said, an attack claimed by the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group.

The officers, including a military commander, were killed in their camp in the town, police officer Abdirahman Haji said. “The death toll may rise,” he added.

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