MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide bomber who set out to assassinate a senior Somali security official blew up his car in central Mogadishu on Monday, missing his target but killing at least 10 people in the city's deadliest attack this year, police and rebels said.
Witnesses said the car bomb exploded near a vehicle carrying Mogadishu security chief Khalif Ahmed Ilig and other officers along the capital's busy Maka al Mukarram road.
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