Somalia: Suicide bombing kills 5, injures 11, including governor in Bardera

At least 5 people have been killed and 11 wounded, including a governor, in a suicide bombing in southwestern Somalia on Tuesday.

“A suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden vehicle into a guesthouse in Bardera where government officials were staying,” said Hussein Adan, a police commander in the town in the Gedo region 450 kilometres west of the capital Mogadishu.