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Suicide Bombing on Somalia Military Base Kills Nine

Mohamed Olad Hassan

   At least nine people were killed and nearly 20 others injured Saturday
   in a car bomb blast at the front gate of a Somali military base in
   Mogadishu, witnesses and security officials said.

   Government security officials contacted by VOA have confirmed that
   eight of those killed were government soldiers and other casualties
   included members of the solders' families, who were at the base at the
   time.

   "A suicide bomber driving an explosive-laden vehicle sped toward the
   front gate of the camp but the guards opened fire to stop it before it
   detonated," Aden Mohamed, a police officer among the first responders,
   told VOA's Somali Service.

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