Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack on the headquarters of the Somalia’s Criminal Investigation Department in Mogadishu, the country’s capital.
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The number of deaths recorded in Mogadishu has risen to ten, after militants set off two vehicle bombsoutside a police base in Somalia’s capital. Witnesses in central Mogadishu said they heard loud explosions followed by half an hour of gunfire.
Earlier, security official Ibrahim Mohamed told AFP that “terrorist elements” had smashed two cars packed full of explosives into the headquarters of the police’s criminal investigations department.
MOGADISHU – Militants set off two auto bombs outside a police base in Somalia’s capital before gunmen stormed inside on Sunday, leaving at least 10 people dead, police said.
Sunday’s (July 31) attack on Mogadishu is the second major assault by the group in the space of a week.
Two gunmen then entered the building following the bombings but were shot dead by the security forces.
The attack on the police Criminal Investigations Department in Mogadishu started with twin suicide auto bombings at the gates of the security facility.
The Al-Shabaab militant group claimed responsibility for the attack.
Last month, a junior minister was among 11 people killed in an attack on the Naasa Hablood hotel.
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The terror group was formed in 2004 from the ashes of Somalia’s civil war and has also carried out atrocities in neighboring Kenya and Uganda, two of the main providers of peacekeeping troops.
