Somalia: Deadly car bomb targets busy cafe in capital

A car bomb has killed at least nine people and injured several others in Somalia‘s capital Mogadishu with the  al-Qaeda-linked armed group, Al-Shabab, claiming responsibility.

Mohamed Yusuf, an official from the national security agency, told AFP that nine civilians were killed and 20 others wounded in the explosion. Most of them were youth who were watching the Euros Finals.

Images posted online showed a huge fireball and plumes of smoke billowing into the night sky after the explosion.

Al-Shabab has launched raids and deadly attacks targeting the government in Mogadishu. Still, the government has joined forces with local armed groups to fight the group in a campaign supported by an African Union force and US air raids.

Somalia last month called for the African Union to slow the planned withdrawal of its forces from the troubled country.

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