According to Reuters, a suicide bomber in Somalia on Sunday detonated himself at a military facility west of the country’s capital Mogadishu, killing one soldier and injuring at least six others.
Captain Aden Omar, a soldier at the facility, told Reuters that the suicide bomber had dressed as a normal soldier and joined others as they walked into a military base early on Sunday before he detonated the weapon.
“We lost one soldier, and we hurt quite a few more. At a checkpoint, the bomber detonated himself, he said.
One dead soldier and six wounded soldiers had been brought to Madina Hospital in Mogadishu, a nurse there told Reuters.
Although the identity of the attacker was not immediately known, the militant group al Shabaab often conducts bombings and shootings in Somalia and other countries.
The al Qaeda-affiliated group seeks to overthrow Somalia’s central government and install its own system of governance based on a rigorous application of Islamic law known as sharia.
“We lost one soldier, and we hurt quite a few more. At a checkpoint, the bomber detonated himself, he said.
