Monday, May 9, 2016

Somalia: 4 Killed as Extremists Attack Police Headquarters

Somali police officers carry a suspected suicide car bomber wounded in a bombing outside a police academy in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday, March 9, 2016. A Somali police official said three police officers and one civilian have been killed in the car bombing. Gen. Ali Hersi Barre said that the suicide car bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle outside a cafe near the academy.
A suicide car bomber struck the entrance of Somalia's traffic police headquarters in the capital on Monday , killing four people and injuring nine others, said a police official. Two police officers were among the dead and two armed extremists who tried to storm the traffic police premises in Mogadishu's Abdiaziz district
were also shot dead, said Capt. Mohamed Hassan.
Somalia's Islamic extremist rebels, al-Shabab, claimed responsibility for the attack, which shattered a period of calm in the seaside city.
Despite being pushed out of Somalia's major cities and towns, al-Shabab, which is allied to al-Qaida, continues to carry out deadly guerrilla attacks across the country.

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