Al-Shabab attack on Somali government offices kills 10
Militants from the Somali extremist group al-Shabab attacked a government office complex in the country's capital of Mogadishu, killing 10 people Tuesday, according to media reports.
Capt. Mohamed Hussein, a senior police officer, said a suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle at the gate and that some of the ministry's employees were taken hostage, the Associated Press reported. He later said police had secured the walled complex.
Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, the al-Qaeda-linked group's military operations spokesman, told Reuters that it was behind the attack on the complex, where the Higher Education and Petroleum Ministries are based.
The AFP news agency also reported that the group claimed responsibility for the attack. "A car loaded with explosives rammed the gate," police official Mohamed Dahir said, according to the agency.
Security forces rushed to the scene and ambulances took wounded victims to hospitals, the AP reported.
Al-Shabab militants attacked Garissa University College in neighboring