Nine people, including a senior local government official, were killed on Wednesday in a suicide bombing in southern Somalia claimed by the Al-Shabaab jihadist group, police and witnesses said.
The attack occurred outside the administration office in the town of Marka, where the district commissioner Abdullahi Ali Ahmed Wafow was speaking with local people, police said.
“Commissioner Abdullahi Wafow was killed in an explosion together with eight other people, most of them security personnel,” a police officer in Marka, Ibrahim Ali, told AFP by phone.