Death toll from Somalia attack that killed politician rises to 15
The death toll from Wednesday's attack in central Somalia in which a parliamentary election candidate was killed has risen to 15, state-run television said. Amina Mohamed, a vocal critic of the government, was killed by a suicide bomber in the city of Beledweyne, around 300km north of Mogadishu, witnesses and relatives said. Somalia has been rocked by another deadly suicide bombing “Police in Beledweyne town launched operations to secure the town after terrorist suicide bombings had killed 15 people last night,” state-run Somali National Television said on its Twitter account. Al Shabab, Somalia’s extremist rebel group, claimed responsibility for the attack. Two other extremist attacks occurred in Beledweyne on Wednesday, killing former politician Hassan Dhuhul, an elder and civilians sitting outside a busy restaurant, police said. No more details were immediately available on those attacks. Somalia is conducting parliamentary elections in an indirect process that involves clan el...