Death Toll From Yesterday's Suicide Attacks In Somaliland Rises To 30

A map of Somalia locating attacks in Hargeysa and Bossaso. Thousands of security forces were deployed Thursday across Hargeysa, the capital of the breakaway statelet of Somaliland, a day after deadly suicide car bombings, police said
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Somalia Death Toll Rises To 30, Sheikh Arrested -- Yahoo News/Reuters

BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) – North Somali authorities said on Thursday they had arrested a prominent local sheikh suspected of involvement in a wave of suicide attacks that killed at least 30 people.

There was still no claim of responsibility for the five bombs in Puntland and Somaliland regions on Wednesday.

But suspicion has fallen on Islamist insurgents fighting the Somali government and its Ethiopian military allies. Local militant group al Shabaab posted a video of a suicide bomber on the Internet but did not explicitly link it to the attacks.

The United States blamed al Qaeda, which it says works through Shabaab, for the attacks that overshadowed a summit in Kenya to discuss the 17-year-long conflict in Somalia.

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