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Security and rescue workers search for victims at the site of the explosion in Mogadishu
Photo: Farah Abdi Warsameh / dpa
At least six people were killed in an attack in Mogadishu on Thursday.
The news agencies dpa and Reuters even report eight victims.
According to the police, the murderer himself was among the dead. In addition, many people were injured, some seriously.
Mogadishu is the capital of the East African crisis state Somalia.
The attack was apparently targeted by a military convoy belonging to an African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission.
According to eyewitness reports, the car bomb also brought down a school building in the neighborhood.
School building collapsed
The Islamist terror group Al-Shabaab claimed the act for itself through its mouthpiece, Radio Andalus.
In the country in the Horn of Africa she has been fighting for supremacy for years, controls large parts of the south and the center and repeatedly carries out attacks on security forces and civilians.
"It was bad to watch our school building collapse," said teacher Ahmed Ali of the dpa news agency.
“Many of our students are injured.
Others are in shock. "
The director of the Aamin Ambulance Service in Mogadishu, Abdikadir Abdirahman, published photos of the crime scene littered with rubble on the online service Twitter.
The attack was a "tragedy," he wrote.
Serious attacks and armed clashes with suspected Al-Shabaab fighters repeatedly occur in Somalia and the capital Mogadishu.
The attacks are often targeted at government institutions, but also hotels, markets and other public institutions.
Just a few days ago, a well-known Somali investigative journalist was killed in a suicide bombing in Mogadishu.
lau / dpa / AFP