At least five people died Thursday when a suicide car bomber detonated his explosives in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, police and witnesses said.
The bomber was reportedly chasing a convoy carrying two police officers, but missed the target. A civilian vehicle was caught in the explosion instead.
The dead include three members of the security forces, who were patrolling the area located near the presidential palace, and the bomber, police and witnesses said.
Six people were reported to have been injured. Witness Abdisalan Garad said some of them were inside a nearby restaurant hit by the blast. Parts of the building collapsed.
Meanwhile, in Bosaso in the north, gunmen shot and wounded a deputy police commissioner, local media reported.
Cornell Jama Sahardiid was shot several times in the chest in the morning. The attackers escaped on foot.
The radical Islamist group al-Shabaab claimed both attacks on pro-insurgent radio Andalus.
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