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No fewer than 18 people have been killed in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, after two explosions ripped through a busy car park, police said.
According to Aljazeera News, al-Shabab, Somali’s militant group has claimed responsibility for Saturday's twin blasts in the Hamarweyne district of the capital.
"Successful operations carried out in Mogadishu's Hamarweyne district," the group said on its Somali-language Twitter feed.
Police and witnesses said the source of the first blast was a car laden with explosives that was parked by a restaurant close to the National Theatre.
The second blast, which followed minutes later, was a "suicide bomber who blew himself up in the crowd of civilians who rushed to the scene of the first blast," Ahmed Weli Said, a Somali government security official, said.
