Bomb kills five Somali soldiers in capital Mogadishu
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MOGADISHU - A bomb blast killed five soldiers and injured a dozen other people in the Somali capital on Thursday, a municipal spokesman said, hours after a car bombing at a checkpoint.
A spokesman for Islamist al Shabaab militants claimed the attack on the soldiers. He did not comment on the first attack.
"We targeted the so-called government soldiers," spokesman Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab said.
Al Shabaab has been trying to disrupt Somalia's protracted parliamentary elections - part of efforts to rebuild the fractured nation after decades of war. The three-month vote is due to end on Dec. 29.
