Car bomb blast in Somalia's Mogadishu kills one
Mogadhisu [Somalia] , August 11 (ANI): A car bomb explosion in Somali's capital Mogadishu killed one person and injured three others on Thursday evening.
"The blast was caused by an improvised explosive device (IED) in a car parked near a police station in Mogadishu,"Anadolu Agency quoted Abdukadir Adan, a police officer in Waberi District, as saying.
Local media said that two security officers were among those injured in the blast.
The al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab group claimed responsibility for the attack.
Last Friday, at least three people were killed and eight others wounded in a car bomb blast near Hotel Ambassador in Mogadishu.
Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen known as al-Shabaab, is a jihadist fundamentalist group based in East Africa.Al-Shabaab has been staging several attacks in the country to establish Sharia law in the country.(ANI)
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