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Six wounded in Somalia airport laptop blast: police

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AFP) — Six people were wounded Monday when a laptop bomb exploded at an airport in Somalia, police said, the second such attack in recent weeks targeting passenger aircraft. The bomb exploded at a checkpoint in the small central town of Beledweyne, some 325 kilometers (200 miles) north of the capital Mogadishu, where last month Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents claimed responsibility for a bomb attack which ripped a hole in a passenger plane shortly […]