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Somali colonel among several people wounded in attack in capital, which no one has claimed responsibility for Mohammed Dhaysane | 13.03.2021
MOGADISHU, Somalia
At least one person was killed and several people wounded, including a senior army officer, when a bomb targeted a vehicle carrying Somali military personnel in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday evening, an official said.
Hassan Adan Abdirahman, a police officer in Mogadishu s Hamarjajab district, told Anadolu Agency over the phone that a roadside blast had targeted a vehicle carrying Omar Abdirahman, a colonel in the Somali National Army.
One person was killed and the colonel was among the wounded, who were all taken to the hospital for treatment, he added.