Car Bomb Attack Kills Several In Somali’s Mogadishu
MEP: Several people were killed while 13 others after Al-Shabab militants detonated a suicide car bomb and carried out a gun attack at the headquarters of the traffic police in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday.
The Somali militant group—which is aligned with Al-Qaeda—claimed responsibility for the attack.
The death toll is not yet clear, but ambulance services in Mogadishu said that at least five bodies were recovered, Voice of America reported, while 13 people were wounded and transported to hospital.
Traffic police officer Mohamed Nur said that two police officers were killed in the bomb and that an armed Al-Shabab assailant was shot dead after trying to enter the building, Reuters reported.
