At least one soldier was killed and six others injured in Somalia on Sunday when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a military base in the west of the capital Mogadishu.
Somalia’s al-Qaida-allied group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the bombing.
The suicide bomber had disguised himself as a regular soldier and joined others as they filed into a military base early Sunday before he detonated the explosive at the checkpoint.
A nurse at Madina Hospital in Mogadishu told Reuters they had received one dead soldier and six others who were wounded.
Al-Shabab claimed it had killed 32 soldiers.
“A Mujahid suicide bomber killed 32 apostate soldiers and injured over 40 others inside a base in Mogadishu today,” Al Andalus radio station, which is affiliated with the group, said, quoting Abdiasis Abu Musab, al-Shabab’s military operations spokesperson.
Abu Musab said they had targeted the base because recruitment activity was being conducted there.
The Islamist group frequently carries out bombings and gun attacks in Somalia and elsewhere.
Al-Shabab has been liberated from many areas in the Hiran region (central Somalia) in the past few days, and this group carries out suicide attacks in the capital when they are under military pressure.
