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At least 6 dead in al Shabaab attack on Somalia’s capital

By Reuters
10 September 2018   |   12:07 pm
A suicide car bomb rammed into a local government office in Somalia's capital on Monday (September 10), killing at least six people in an attack claimed by al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab

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