MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Seven people were killed and six others injured in a suicide bombing attack at a café outside a police training school in Somalia’s capital on Thursday.
Police said the victims included officers and civilians who were having tea outside the General Kaahiye Police Academy. The al-Shabab extremist group, affiliated with al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement published on its website.
Resident Mohamed Ali said he heard a loud blast. “The café was full of people enjoying their tea, and then everything was chaos,” he said. A paramedic at Madina Hospital told The Associated Press that several injured people were receiving treatment, some with severe injuries.
The attack occurred two months ago, on Thursday, August 15. It came just two months after 37 people were killed in an attack on a public beach in Mogadishu.
Somalia has been taking over security responsibilities from foreign troops who had been deployed under the African Transition Mission in Somalia, whose mandate ends in December.
