A suicide bomber rammed a car loaded with explosives into the gate of a government building in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday. Gunmen then stormed the seat of the regional government, which houses, among other things, the office of the mayor of Mogadishu and the governor of the surrounding Benadir region, police officer Mohamed Dahir of the German news agency said.
According to Dahir, the suspected terrorists were shooting around. Initially, no further information was known about the attack.
The crisis-ridden state in the Horn of Africa with some 16 million inhabitants has been rocked for years by terrorist attacks and other violence, especially by the Islamist terrorist militia Al-Shabaab.
The government has been conducting a military offensive against Al-Shabaab for several months now. The government succeeded in retaking large parts of central Somalia. At the same time, the extremists are increasing the frequency of their attacks.
(yam/sda/dpa)
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