Al-Shabab Claims Responsibility for the Blast in Somali Capital

Mogadishu — Al-shabab Islamist militants claimed the responsibility for the latest in a wave of deadly suicide bomb struck at KM4 junction in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, killing at least two people.

Spokesman for Al-shabab fighters, Sheik Abdi Aziz Abu Musab said in remarks broadcast on the media that One of their mujahedeen brigade martyrs blew himself up” in the government and AU military compound at KM4 junction nearby former Egyptian embassy, a busy crossroads in the heart of the Somalia capital Mogadishu,killing a number of troops, he said.

“We have implemented a holy attack on the so-called Somali government military base and African union soldiers at KM4 junction on Tuesday, where they used to shell civilians as he put it” Sheikh Abdi Aziz Abu Musab said

On the other hand, Somali government said early on Tuesday, it has foiled the suicide attacks by Al-shabab militants in the capital mogadishu.

The suicide attacks in mogadishu pile yet more pressure on a Western-backed government that relies on African Union troops to prop it up and fight an insurgency by Islamist militants who control much of south and central Somalia outside Mogadishu.

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