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Five dead in Mogadishu military bomb blast

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"The suicide bomber tried to enter the compound but guards stopped him, when he then detonated his bomb, killing three people on the spot including himself," said Farah Barre, a government security official.

"Two more people died soon after from their wounds," he said, adding the attack on Wednesday morning took place at Villa Baidoa, a government military base near the busy K4 roundabout in central Mogadishu.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011