Responsibility for the attack, in the run-up to a round of voting, claimed by Al-Shabaab militants

A suicide bomber killed 14 people in a popular restaurant in the central Somali town of Beledweyne on the eve of a round of voting there, police said.

The attack on Saturday was claimed by the Al-Shabaab Islamist militant group, which has been waging an insurgency in the Horn of Africa for years.

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