of Beledweyne on Saturday after a suicide bomber blew themselves up in a restaurant packed with local officials and politicians, witnesses said.
“I counted seven dead, including soldiers and civilians, and over 10 injured. I was among the people who took the casualties to hospital,” Aden Farah, a local elder, told Reuters. The parliamentary elections began on Nov. 1 and were initially supposed to end on Dec. 24, but are currently due to be completed on Feb. 25.