Al-Shaabab claimed responsibility in a brief statement, saying the "martydom operation" had targeted the commissioner.
A general view of the scene of a car-bomb explosion in Mogadishu on January 12, 2022 where at least six people were killed and several others wounded in the huge blast/AFP
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalist @NewVision
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
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