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Somali government on Thursday said that a suicide bomber who killed more than 20 people last week at a graduation ceremony of Banadir University was a Somali-Danish citizen from Denmark.
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Information Minister Dahir Gelle said that the suicide bomber was a 26 year-old Abdurrahman, who had been living in Denmark for a log time. Gelle stated that suicide bomber Abdurrahman retuned to Somalia in June 2008.

The minister said the bomber was identified by his father after the photographs were released. No information was immediately available from Denmark's embassy in Nairobi.

The suicide bomb killed three government ministers, doctors, journalists and students last Thursday. Government officials and UN envoy to Somalia accused the suicide attack on the Islamist group, Al-shabaab, but the group has since denied being responsible.

Gelle believed that many of the suicide bombs are carried out by young Somalis who grown up western countries.

Suicide bombers were unknown in Somalia until 2007.

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