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		</div><p>A large explosion outside a school in Somalia’s capital has killed at least eight people, including students, witnesses said.</p>
<p>The extremist group Al-Shabab said it carried out the attack.</p>
<p>The al Qaida-linked group controls large parts of rural Somalia and continues to frustrate efforts at rebuilding the African nation after three decades of conflict.</p>
<p>The blast sent a plume of smoke above a busy part of Mogadishu during the morning rush hour.</p>
<p>Police spokesman Abdifatah Adam Hassan said eight people were killed and 17 others wounded.</p>
<p>“This is a tragedy,” said Abdulkadir Adan, of the Amin ambulance service, which rushed people to hospital.</p>
<p>The casualties were fewer than might have occurred as Thursday is part of the weekend in Somalia, an overwhelmingly Muslim nation.</p>
<p>Photos showed the blast damaged part of the school, with emergency workers looking through the collapsed roof beams and wooden benches.</p>
<p>Al-Shabab, in a statement carried by its Andalus radio service, said it targeted Western officials being escorted by the African Union (AU)peacekeeping convoy.</p>
<p>But a witness, Hassan Ali, said that a private security company was escorting the officials and said he saw four of the security personnel wounded.</p>
<p>The attack occurred as Somalia faces major questions about its political and security future.</p>
<p>The AU peacekeeping force was meant to withdraw from the country, but its mission could be extended amid concerns that Somali forces are not ready to assume responsibility for security.</p>
<p>A long-delayed presidential vote was meant to take place in February but now looks set to be held next year.</p>
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