Suicide attack kills 6 in Somali capital

The mayor of Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, is to be flown to Turkey for treatment along with several others injured in suicide attack that killed six people.

An official disclosed that Mayor Abdirahman Omar Osman is still unconscious.

A female suicide bomber blew herself up inside the mayor’s office during a security meeting.

Militant Islamist group Al-Shabab says it carried out the attack, hoping to target the New UN special envoy to Somalia, James Swan, a US citizen.

Al-Shabab seeks to overthrow Somalia’s central government and has been carrying out regular attacks in Mogadishu, despite the heavy presence of African Union peacekeepers and US-trained Somali troops.