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A suicide bomber killed 15 army recruits and wounded 20 more as they queued outside a military training camp in Mogadishu on Tuesday, military and hospital sources said.

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The explosion happened at around 0900 according to eyewitness Mohamed Adan, an army officer at the base.Adan said the bomber had slipped in among the recruits queueing up outside the General Dhegobadan Military Camp when the explosion occurred.

Speaking on national radio, army chief Odowa Yusuf Rage, said, “The new recruits were in a queue outside the entrance of the Dhegobadan military camp preparing to enter the base before the suicide bomber sneaked into the line and blew up himself.” Rage claimed, “10 young men who wanted to join the national armed forces were killed and 20 others wounded.”

However, sources at the main Madina hospital and the morgue confirmed to AFP that 15 had been killed. “We have received 15 dead bodies from today’s blast, some of them had serious shrapnel wounds and all of them were young men approximately between twenty to twenty-seven years of age,” said a mortuary employee.Read Also

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