 A suicide bomber killed six policemen and a civilian on Sunday in Somalia's capital and hardline Islamist insurgents warned more suicide attacks would target pro-government forces in the coming days. Abdifatah Shaweye, deputy governor of Mogadishu, said the bomber drove a 4x4 vehicle to the gate of a police headquarters and detonated it by the guards. "Four died on the spot, two others died of serious injuries, and one civilian (died)," a police commander, who asked not to be named, told Reuters.
"Abdikadir Mohamed Hasan of our Mujahideen carried out the suicide car bomb," Sheik Husein Ali Fidow, a senior al Shabaab official told reporters in a news conference via phone. "It was committed by a young Somalia boy born in Mogadishu.
| Really? Define "young". Did the lad have a choice? Did his parents? |
More suicide car bombs are on the way coming hours, days and months," he said.
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