Suicide car bomb in Mogadishu leaves casualties

MOGADISHU – Somalia’s Islamist group al Shabaab set off a suicide car bomb at a security checkpoint about 15 kilometres outside the capital Mogadishu on Thursday, the group’s spokesman and a police official told Reuters.

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The blast has caused casualties, according to the police officer, Major Abdullahi Nur, but he did not elaborate on whether that meant some had died or were only injured.