[Al Shabab via Aljazeera] One soldier was killed and at least six others were wounded in Somalia when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a military base near the capital, Mogadishu.The bomber disguised himself as a soldier and joined others as they filed into a military base early on Sunday before he detonated the explosive, said Captain Aden Omar, an officer at the base.
"We lost one soldier and several others were injured. The bomber blew up himself at a checkpoint," he said.
A nurse at Madina Hospital in Mogadishu said it received one dead soldier and six others who were wounded.
It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the attack but the armed group al-Shabab frequently carries out bombings and gun attacks in Somalia and elsewhere.