MOGADISHU, Somalia - suicide car bomb Tuesday outside the offices of the UN mine action service and the checkpoint of the Somali army in Mogadishu, killing 13 people, including officials from the Somali Police said seven of the UN guards.
He said the Somali police chief Gen. Mohammad Sheikh Hassan in a press conference took the blasts occurred near a base of the African Union.
It was alleged extremist Islamist insurgents in Somalia, al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the bombings, according to the Andalus radio station of the group.
He said the police officer, Capt. Mohamed Hussein, unlike previous attacks by al-Shabab, which is linked to al-Qaeda, and the militants will not be accompanying the bomber. He said he first tried suicide car bomb attack on a speeding through the barrier at the UN office but the guards opened fire on the car. Hussein said the explosion a second suicide bomber targeted a checkpoint manned near the base of the African Union in Mogadishu, the Somali security forces. Injuries are still unclear.
The youth movement, waging an insurgency against Somalia's weak government supported by the United Nations with the goal of establishing an Islamic emirate in Somalia, which is controlled by a strict form of Islam.
Earlier this month, it killed eight soldiers were killed when a suicide car bomber targeted a young military training camp in Somalia and the attackers then entered the base on foot.
More than 22,000 troops and police serving in the African Union force, which also includes troops from Burundi, Djibouti, Kenya, Sierra Leone and Ethiopia.
Shabaab opposes the presence of foreign troops in Somalia have launched attacks in the countries that contributed to the AU force.
Although the youth movement was ousted from the Somali capital, Mogadishu, in 2011, and continued to launch deadly gangs, which include suicide bombings war
