Local police on Thursday in a statement confirmed that at least seven people died and six others were wounded after a suicide bomber blew himself up in a restaurant in Somalia’s capital.
It was not immediately clear who had carried out the attacks.
Although Islamist militant group al Shabaab frequently orchestrates bombings and gun attacks in Mogadishu and elsewhere in the fragile Horn of Africa nation.
The restaurant, which was located opposite a police training station, was frequented by officers, according to a security source.
“My cousin and four of his colleagues died in the blast. We are rushing to the scene to take his body,” Hassan Osman, a relative of one of the victims, told Reuters.
The al-Qaeda affiliate frequently attacks military outposts and state targets as part of a mission to overturn Somalia’s government and establish its own rule.
