GALKAYO , Somalia, March 31 (UPI) -- A suicide bomb killed at least six people in Galkayo, Somalia, Thursday, with the Islamist terrorist group al-Shabab taking responsibility.
A man with explosives strapped to his waist blew himself up near the Unlay hotel in the city of about 140,000. One victim was the city's finance director, police officer Shire Yusuf reported. An al-Shabab spokesman told Radio Andulus, a radio station supportive of the insurgency, that the finance director was the target of the attack.