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Suicide bombers killed at least seven people as they tried to blast their way into the African Union's main peacekeeping base in Somalia's capital on Tuesday, police said. The force of the explosions shattered windows at Mogadishu's nearby airport, showering arriving passengers with glass, said witnesses. Al Shabaab, the Islamist militant group fighting to topple Somalia's Western-backed government, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it had killed more than 12 people. It regularly reports higher death counts than the authorities. Police said the first attacker detonated a car bomb and the second tried to storm the base on foot, but was shot and exploded at the gate.