Islamist group Al-Shabaab on Monday claimed responsibility for twin suicide car bomb attacks that killed at least 12 people in Somalia, police sources said.<\/p>\n
The sources said that a local government official was injured in the second suicide car explosion.<\/p>\n
A second suicide carbomb blast hit a military checkpoint on the outskirts of Mogadishu, injuring two people including a local government official, police and witnesses said.<\/p>\n
The attack comes minutes after a first suicide carbomb targeting a convoy of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) on a road linking Mogadishu and Afgooye, a small town 20 km west of the capital.<\/p>\n
Twelve civilians in a minibus plying the road were killed and 27 were injured after the bus was caught in the blast, local governor Mohamed Sidi said.<\/p>\n
Police officer Ali Yare said the second suicide attack that targeted an official of local Mogadishu administration left the official and one of his guards slightly injured.<\/p>\n
Al-Shabaab militants claimed responsibility for both attacks, saying five American special forces and a South African trainer were killed in the first suicide attack, which cannot be verified so far.<\/p>\n
It was the first attack since the killing of the group’s leader Godane last week in a U.S. drone attack in southern Somalia.<\/p>\n
Source: xinhuanet.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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