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		</div><h6 class="section-theme-background-indicator publication-font"><strong>Suicide bomber who killed 7 people including mayor was a blind woman</strong></h6>
<h6 class="section-theme-background-indicator publication-font"><strong>Al Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group al Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the suicide attack in Mogadishu </strong></h6>
<h6 class="section-theme-background-indicator publication-font"><strong>Mayor Abdirahman Omar Osman, who previously served for a spell as a Labour Party councillor in London, died of his wounds a week later in Qatar where he was hospitalised</strong></h6>
<h6 class="sub-title"><span class="caption"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-325016" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Nurses-at-the-Medina-hospital-assist-a-civilian-wounded-in-an-explosion-in-Mogadishu.jpg" alt="Nurses at the Medina hospital assist a civilian wounded in an explosion in Mogadishu.jpg" width="810" height="539" /><strong>Nurses at the Medina hospital assist a civilian wounded in an explosion</strong></span></h6>
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<p>A woman who killed seven people in a horror suicide blast was blind and worked for the local government, it has been revealed.<br />
The explosion last month killed six people and the mayor of Mogadishu.<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text);">Somalia internal security agency said the woman had help from a fellow worker at the municipal government before the suicide attack.<br />
</span>The al Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group al Shabaab, which aims to topple Somalia&#8217;s UN-backed government, claimed responsibility for the July 24 attack in the Somali capital.</p>
<h6><span class="caption"><img class="alignnone wp-image-325019" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Abdirahman-Omar-Osman-.jpg" alt="Abdirahman Omar Osman .jpg" width="674" height="448" /><strong>Mogadishu Mayor Abdirahman Omar Osman died of his wounds he sustained in the blast, a week later in a Qatar hospital</strong></span></h6>
<p>Mayor Abdirahman Omar Osman, who previously served for a spell as a Labour Party councillor in London, died of his wounds a week later in Qatar where he was hospitalised.<br />
&#8220;Preliminary findings show a female who worked in the local government blew herself up with the help of another female, who&#8230; also worked at the local government,&#8221; the<br />
security ministry said in a statement carried on the state news agency.<br />
It was al Shabaab&#8217;s first known use of a disabled person as a suicide bomber and the statement suggested the bomber used her blindness to get past security and reach the mayor&#8217;s offices.</p>
<h6><span class="caption"><img class="alignnone wp-image-325021" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Abdirahman-Omar-Osman-funeral-1.jpg" alt="Abdirahman Omar Osman funeral 1" width="843" height="562" /><strong>Members of Somali National Army carry the body of Mogadishu&#8217;s mayor Abdirahman Omar Osman, a victim of suicide bombing</strong></span></h6>
<h6><strong><span class="caption"><img class="alignnone wp-image-325022" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Abdirahman-Omar-Osman-funeral-2.jpg" alt="Abdirahman Omar Osman funeral 2" width="784" height="497" />Somali government officials and family</span></strong><span class="caption"> membe</span><span class="caption">rs</span><strong><span class="caption"> bury the dead body of Mogadishu Mayor Abdirahman Omar Osman</span></strong></h6>
<p>The whereabouts of the blind woman&#8217;s co-worker, who the ministry said was also a woman and helped her carry out the attack, was not known.<br />
A month before the bombing, the two women took leaves of absence from work, the ministry statement said, and visited an area of Somalia controlled by al Shabaab.<br />
&#8220;The female bomber was disabled (blind).<br />
She misused the opportunity and acted with enmity against the bosses and the people she worked with,&#8221; the ministry statement said.</p>
<h5><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-325025" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Relatives-remove-remains-of-victim-of-suicide-bombing.jpg" alt="Relatives remove remains of victim of suicide bombing" width="742" height="480" /><strong><span class="caption">Teams remove the dead body of a civilian</span> after the suicide bombing in Mogadishu</strong></h5>
<p>Osman fled as a refugee to Britain after civil war erupted in Somalia in 1991, earned a master&#8217;s degree, became a naturalised citizen and worked in the housing department in the London borough of Ealing.<br />
He subsequently returned to Somalia to help rebuild his war-torn, homeland in the Horn of Africa.</p>
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