No fewer than seven people were killed today while 10 people were left
injured after a car bomb was detonated outside a restaurant in
Mogadishu, close to the Ministry of Interior and Federal affairs.
The
blast was caused by a car parked near a restaurant close to the
Ministry of Homeland Security in central Mogadishu, a police officer
Mohammed Ibrahim disclosed.
“There was a huge blast at a
tea-shop near the security ministry, the initial information we are
getting indicates it was a car bomb explosion,” said Mohammed Ibrahim.
powerful blast destroyed the restaurant to a large extent. Police
pulled the bloodied body of a man from the rubble and said there may be
more. Soldiers pushed back a surging crowd and fired in the air to
disperse people, Orlando Sentinel reports.
SOT, Abdifatah Halane,
Mayor of Mogadishu Spokesperson said: “The car exploded in the
restaurant in the opposite of the Ministry of youth and Sports Building,
seven people died some of them are children coming from school and much
more are injured, the terrorists wanted to kill as many people as they
could.”
No faction has claimed responsibility
for the attack although there are suspicions that the al-Shabab
extremists who have vowed to destabilise the country’s new government
were behind it. Al-Shabab had earlier denounced new Somali-American
President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and warned Somalis against
supporting him.
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