Mogadishu: At least six people were killed and several others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up amongst a group of security officials outside the Somali prime minister’s office on Tuesday.
According to a Somali military official, bodies of six people and several injured were lying near the scene of the attack in central Mogadishu. Many of those killed or wounded were soldiers or police.
“The bomber was sitting near a perimeter wall and detonated himself in the midst of a group of security forces,” the military official said adding that there was there was chaos, smoke and pieces of human flesh.
Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon Said was in his office at the time when the attacker struck, officials in his office said, but he was not harmed by the blast.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the blast, but the al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents have conducted a series of guerrilla style attacks in the capital.
The insurgents have vowed to topple newly elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who took office in September after being chosen by the country’s new parliament, bringing an end to eight years of transitional rule.
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