Five civilians, including a child, were killed in a suicide bombing attack on a cafe in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday, a Somali police spokesperson said in a statement.
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Around 7:00 pm (local), a suicide bomber set off the explosives he was carrying in a cafe frequented by young people,
” said spokesman Sadiq Dudishe.
Four of these young people, as well as a child, were killed in the explosion, he detailed, adding that the perpetrator of the attack was also dead.
Four people were also injured.
According to a witness, Ali Mohamed, the suicide bomber walked among the crowd of customers on the terrace of the establishment, next to a police station.
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I was leaving a restaurant about a hundred meters away, I was shocked by the explosion, which was very strong.
I saw people running and carrying wounded,
”said Mr. Mohamed.
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The police cordoned off the area, but I saw several corpses being loaded into ambulances, they were young men, two of them came from my neighborhood,
" he added.
The Shebab Islamists, who have sworn the loss of the fragile Somali government supported at arm's length by the international community, regularly carry out attacks in the Somali capital from which they were driven out in 2011 by the Amisom, the force of the African Union (UA).
