WORLD BRIEFING / SOMALIA
A foreign suicide bomber killed six guards and a civilian at a military base in the Somali capital, officials said, an attack that came after two weeks of intense fighting in war-torn Mogadishu.
Abdifitah Ibrahim Shawey, the region’s deputy governor and the deputy mayor of Mogadishu, said the bomber had pale skin, leading authorities to suspect he was one of some 300 foreigners said to be fighting alongside Islamist insurgents.
Somalia has had foreigners involved in two previous suicide bombings, but they were Somali emigrants. The attack is believed to be the first time someone of non-Somali origin has carried out a suicide bombing there.
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