Head of Somalia's military unhurt, civilian killed in suicide car bomb on convoy


  • World
  • Monday, 13 Jul 2020

Somali security officers assess the wreckage of a car destroyed at the scene of an explosion in Mogadishu, Somalia July 13, 2020. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The head of Somalia’s military escaped unhurt and one civilian was killed on Monday when a suicide attacker drove a bomb-laden car into a convoy in the capital Mogadishu, according to a military spokesman and an ambulance service.

The al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group said it was behind the attack.

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