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A car bomb left 5 dead and 21 wounded on the morning of Saturday, July 7, near Somalia's presidential palace in Mogadishu. Another bombing in the Somali capital, which in October had been the victim of a terrorist attack that killed nearly 600 people, the deadliest in the history of Africa.
At least five people were killed and 21 others wounded Saturday in central Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, where Islamists have fired two bombs and stormed an official building.
A witness, interviewed by Reuters news agency, found an exchange of fire outside the building, which houses the Ministry of the Interior, as well as the Ministry of the Security and Police Forces.
Smoke escaping from vehicles on fire after a suicide bombing at the car trapped near the presidential palace while a second explosion took place near the official building already mentioned.
"At this point, we evacuated five dead people and 21 others wounded. The toll could increase " Abdikadir Abdirahman, director of Amin ambulance service, told Reuters.
Al Chabaab group claims attack
Spokesman for Al Shabaab military operations said that the group was the author of both attacks, adding that his fighters were still inside the security building. He added that the Islamists had killed more than 20 people working for the ministries, but the terrorist group is used to giving a higher number of victims than the authorities.
Mohamed Hussein, a police chief, said that the Islamists had triggered remotely the explosion of the vehicle they used to get to the security building.
The Somali Islamists of Al Shabaab were expelled from Mogadishu in 2011 and have since lost the control of most cities, but remain very present around the capital. The Islamists have been trying for ten years to overthrow the Western-backed government and to impose a strict version of Islam in Somalia's
Somali capital had already been the victim of terrorist attack on October 14, 2017 that had killed 587 people.
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