ISIS claims responsibility for Bosaso suicide bombing

Abdi Omar Bile
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The suicide bomber blew up himself at security checkpoint near Towfiq junction in Bosaso. [Photo: Twitter]
Bosaso-(Puntland Mirror) The Islamic State has claimed the responsibility for a suicide bombing in Bosaso port town of Puntland on Tuesday night that killed at least three people.

“A fighter of the Islamic State achieved to blew up himself at Somali army in Bosaso of eastern Somalia,” the ISIS said in statement published on its news service Amaq.

Among those killed were policeman and young people who are at the scene of the blast.

The suicide bomber blew up himself at security checkpoint near Towfiq junction in Bosaso, according to sources. 

The attack also resulted in numerous injuries, as medical officials in Bosaso told Puntland Mirror.

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