Car bomb kills 13 in Somali capital: report
A car bomb near a hotel on a busy street in the Somali capital killed at least 13 people yesterday, police and the emergency medical services said, hours after a man was killed by a blast as he tried to ram through a checkpoint.
Police said the blast damaged a house on Maka al Mukaram street but did not destroy its target, the Wehliye Hotel.
"We have carried 13 dead people and 14 others are injured. The death toll may rise further," Abdikadir Abdirahman, director of aid-funded Aamin Ambulance services, told Reuters.
A spokesman for Somali Islamist insurgent group al Shabaab claimed the attack.
Earlier on Monday, police shot at a minibus, also in Mogadishu, when the driver refused to stop as it approached a checkpoint. The minibus exploded, wounding two bystanders and killing the driver, police officer Nur Osman told Reuters.
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