6 dead as Al-Shabab targets UN convoy in Mogadishu

Thursday Febuary 13, 2014

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MOGADISHU--At least six people were killed and many wounded Thursday in a suicide car bomb attack targeting a United Nations convoy close to Mogadishu's heavily fortified international airport, officials said.

Somalia's al-Qaida-linked Shebab rebels told AFP that one of their suicide bombers carried out the attack.

The bomb went off near a checkpoint at the entrance to the airport complex, which also houses the base of AMISOM — the African Union force fighting Shebab rebels — as well as a number of foreign diplomatic missions and United Nations offices.

A Shebab spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack.

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