A auto bomb has exploded outside a seafront restaurant in the Somali capital Mogadishu, police say.
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At about midnight Thursday local time (4 p.m. ET), government spokesman Abdisalam Aato said said all the attackers had been killed.
Explosions and gunfire erupted at a Somali beach Thursday in what appears to be another deadly terror attack in the east African nation.
Major Farah Abdulle, a police officer at the scene, said: “We can not know the number of casualties inside”.
Capt. Mohamed Hussein told Al Jazeera that he saw three dead bodies outside the restaurant, but more deaths were likely to be discovered.
The Lido beach area is busy with restaurants, including upmarket establishments popular with business people and diaspora Somalis who have returned home to Mogadishu.
Al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda affiliate, has been staging attacks in Somalia in an attempt to create an Islamic state ruled by strict Sharia law.
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Al-Shabaab Islamist militants claimed responsibility for the assault on Radio Andalus, a broadcaster that supports the insurgents. The al-Qaida-linked group claimed it had killed about 100 Kenyans and seized armaments and military vehicles. It is popular with Mogadishu’s elite and government officials. News storiesdisplayed here appear in our category for worldwide and are licensed via a specific agreement between LongIsland.comand The Associated Press, the world’s oldest and largest news organization. This includes the preparation of derivative works of, or the incorporation of such content intoother works.
