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Head of Somalia's Military Unhurt, Civilian Killed in Suicide Car Bomb

Reuters

   MOGADISHU - The head of Somalia's military escaped unhurt and one
   civilian was killed on Monday when a suicide attacker drove a
   bomb-laden car into a convoy in the capital Mogadishu, according to a
   military spokesman and an ambulance service.

   The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab group said it was behind the attack.

   General Yusuf Rage was driving in the convoy near the military hospital
   in Mogadishu's Hodan district when the blast struck, Colonel Abdiqani
   Ali, the military spokesman said.

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