Somalia: Suicide bomber hits Mogadishu police academy

On the very least 10 folks were killed in a suicide blast at a police academy within the Somali capital, Mogadishu, officials said.

Dressed in a police uniform, the attacker blew himself up inside of the educational camp of the academy early on Thursday, killing and wounding several officers.

Some of the crucial victims were seriously wounded within the attack, authorities said, including that the death toll would perchance additionally rise.

Al-Shabab, the al-Qaeda-linked get up neighborhood struggling with to overthrow the UN-backed govt, claimed responsibility for the blast. The neighborhood said they killed bigger than 25 police officers within the attack.

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