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World News
August 9, 2019 / 7:29 AM / Updated 3 hours ago
Somalia says blind female suicide bomber killed Mogadishu mayor
Abdi Sheikh
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.
Mayor Abdirahman Omar Osman, who previously served for a spell as a Labour Party councillor in London, died of his wounds a week later in Qatar where he was hospitalized.
Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-somalia-security-bomber/somalia-says-blind-female-suicide-bomber-killed-mogadishu-mayor-idUSKCN1UZ1D0 (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-somalia-security-bomber/somalia-says-blind-female-suicide-bomber-killed-mogadishu-mayor-idUSKCN1UZ1D0)
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Sounds like the 1st line in a joke. Did you hear the one about blind female suicide bomber?
she “could not see balanced news reports.â€
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Well now she has blue eyes.
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Well now she has blue eyes.
The bad news is they're in different parts of town.
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Well now she has blue eyes.
They were the 1st things that went through her mind.