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Suicide Attack Kills 6 People, Injures Mogadishu Mayor

Mohamed Olad Hassan

   Seynab Abukar contributed this report from Mogadishu.

   A suspected al-Shabab suicide bomber killed at least six people
   Wednesday and injured six others, including the mayor of the Somali
   capital Mogadishu, witnesses and security officials said.

   The attack took place at local government headquarters in Mogadishu,
   where Mayor, Abdirahman Omar Osman -- who is also the governor of
   Banadir -- was meeting with his deputies and the city's district
   chairpersons about security challenges, Deputy Mayor Mohamed Tulah told
   state-run Radio Mogadishu.

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