Suicide bomber kills 6 Somalia

At least six people died after an al-Shabab suicide bomber blew himself up in a restaurant just outside a senior official's office in the central Somali city of Beledweyne.

The deadly blast took place outside the office of the governor of the Hiran region, where he was holding a meeting, police and residents said on Sunday.

A suicide bomber blew up himself in a restaurant," Major Hussein Osman, a police officer, told Reuters news agency from Beledweyne. Somalia has been at war since 1991 when clan-based warlords overthrew longtime leader Siad Barre and then turned on each other.

Al-Shabab has in the past carried out frequent attacks in Mogadishu and other parts of Somalia in a bid to topple the country's Western-backed government and drive out African Union troops.

UCJ, UNILORIN.