Car bomb explosion in Mogadishu kills 10
At least 10 people were killed on Tuesday in a car bomb attack on a government building in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, a government official said.
Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab said it was behind the deadly blast.
“We heard a huge explosion in Wadajir district, there are some casualties,” Abifutah Omar Halane, the spokesman for Mogadishu’s mayor, said.
The death toll may rise, as some of the at least nine wounded were badly hurt in the explosion, he added.
A column of white smoke was seen above the capital and some houses were rattled by the blast, DPA news agency reported.
“It’s a suicide car bomb on Wadajir District building in which Somali officials and their staff stay. There are government and their staff who have died at the scene. We will tell you the number of dead later,” said Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab’s spokesman for military operations.
