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1. An Al-Shabaab car bombing kills six people and wounds 12 others at an army checkpoint near Somalia's parliament in Mogadishu.
   2022-04-10 23:30:07 (First version)
2. An Al-Shabaab car bombing kills six people and injures 12 others at an army checkpoint near Somalia's parliament in Mogadishu.
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