Somalia: Shabab Militants Claim Attack on Restaurant
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Version 0 of 1. A suicide car bomber rammed the gates of a restaurant near a beach in Mogadishu, the capital, before gunmen fought their way into the building in an attack that killed at least three people on Thursday, a police official said. The extremist group Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack. An unknown number of people were trapped inside the Liido Seafood restaurant, which is popular with government officials, said the police official, Capt. Mohammed Hussein. An operation to dislodge the attackers was underway, he said. |