FILE PHOTO: Mogadishu Mayor Abdirahman Omar Osman is seen at an event in Mogadishu, Somalia, October 17, 2017. REUTERS/Feisal Omar
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The suicide bomber who killed the mayor of Mogadishu and six other people last month was a blind, female employee of the municipal government who was assisted by a fellow worker, Somalia's internal security ministry said on Friday.
The al Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group al Shabaab, which aims to topple Somalia’s U.N.-backed government, claimed responsibility for the July 24 attack in the Somali capital.
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