Head of Somalia’s military unharmed after suicide car bomber attacked convoy

Somalia’s military chief has narrowly escaped unharmed from a suicide attacker who drove a bomb-laden car into a convoy on Monday in the capital Mogadishu, according to a military spokesman and an ambulance service. The same sources announced that one civilian was killed.

The military

claimed that behind this attack al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group is to be found.

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 Sabaab’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.

Source: Reuters

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