ISIL claims the responsibility for Tuesday’s suicide attack in Bossaso

Abdulqadir Mumin (C) appears in an ISIS propaganda video. Mumin, a senior Al-Shabab commander in Somalia’s Puntland region, leads a small faction of the militant group that pledged allegiance to ISIS in 2015.

By: Ahmed Mohamed
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Daesh wing in Somalia has claimed responsibly for Tuesday’s Suicide attack that targeted a military checkpoint in the coastal town of Bossaso of Somalia’s northern regional state of Puntland.

The explosion killed five people, including a policeman, and injured 12 others, according to the local administration.

Yusuf Mohamed, governor of Bari region said the bomber approached soldiers at the checkpoint and detonated explosives strapped to his waist in Bossaso,

The group which briefly seized the port town of Qandala in last December said that one of their fighters launched attack at a security checkpoint manning Puntland forces near a hotel in Bosaso.

In February this year, the militants attacked a hotel in Bossaso leading the death of four, including two attackers.

The semi-autonomous regional state of Puntland has been battling Islamic State-linked fighters who have broken away from Al-Shabab extremist group.