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Bombs kill at least 25 people near hotel in Somali capital Mogadishu

Islamist group al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attacks on Saturday

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omalis carry away a man injured after a car bomb was detonated in Mogadishu, Somalia. Photo: AP/PTI

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Two car bombs killed At least 25 people were killed and 30 others injured in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday, police said, two weeks after a huge truck bomb killed hundreds of civilians in the city.

Islamist group al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attacks on Saturday. A suicide car bomb was rammed into a hotel, Nasahablod Two, about 600 metres from the presidential palace, and then armed militants stormed the building, police said.

A few minutes later, a car bomb exploded near the former parliament house nearby.

Earlier, Ali Nur, a police officer, told Reuters that mostly policemen had

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