Five people have been killed in an attack on the main law courts in the Somali capital, police have said.
Eyewitnesses said gunmen entered the Mogadishu courts, detonating explosives and opening fire, adding that security operatives responded and a gunfight ensued. The attackers however remained unidentified.
There are also reports of an explosion near the city’s airport. Most attacks in Mogadishu are blamed on Islamic militant group al-Shabab.
An intelligence officer, Abdirahman Mohamed, told AFP news agency that at least one suicide bomber had blown himself up, leaving several people dead.
“Armed men entered the court and then we heard a blast. Then they started opening fire,” witness Hussein Ali, who works at the courts, told Reuters news agency.
Other witnesses said the attackers were dressed in Somali military uniform, and also reported a second explosion.
The incident comes a month after 10 people were killed in a suicide car bombing, in one of the deadliest attacks in the coastal city since a new UN-backed Somali government was formed last year.
Mhen!! Na wa ooo…. Islamic sect again. Der’s nw all r’son 2 doubt dis so called religion datz kipz deceivin every1 dat dey preach peace n luv, coz 4rm all religionz hv seen and hrd of, der’z non as troublesome asd islamism.
Tel me hw many tym u don hear of Budism causin mass destruction, or xtianity and hinduism e.t.c…..mhen! Dat religion shud be looked into#sad#