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title: "At least 17 killed in bomb attack in Somalia capital"
description: "MOGADISHU, July 22 (Reuters) - At least 17 people were killed and 28 others wounded when a bomb went off outside a hotel near the international airport in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Monday, medical officials said."
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# At least 17 killed in bomb attack in Somalia capital

> MOGADISHU, July 22 (Reuters) - At least 17 people were killed and 28 others wounded when a bomb went off outside a hotel near the international airport in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Monday, medical officials said.

By Reuters · Published 22 July 2019, 16:51 SAST

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The Al Qaeda-linked Islamist group al Shabaab, which is trying to topple Somalia's weak U.N.-backed government, claimed responsibility for the attack.

The city's Madina hospital received 17 bodies and 28 people with injuries, 12 of them in a critical condition, said Mohammed Yusuf, the hospital's director.

The blast went off at the first checkpoint on the road that leads to Mogadishu airport, said Farah Hussein, a shopkeeper who witnessed the attack.

Somalia has been riven by civil war since 1991, when clan warlords overthrew a dictator, then turned on each other. (Reporting by Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar Writing by Duncan Miriri Editing by Peter Graff)