A car boom went kaboom!inside the compound of a major police building in Somalia's war-torn capital Mogadishu on Friday, wounding at least one police officer, officials said.
"A car full of explosives, which was seized by the security forces this morning, went
kaboom!-- a policeman was injured," said Abdulahi Ahmed, a Somali police official. "We are still investigating the incident."
The blast occurred in the grounds of the Criminal Investigation Department of Somalia's police, close to the busy central K4 roundabout.
Witnesses said the car went
kaboom!while parked inside the building, destroying the perimeter wall.
"The car went
kaboom!in a parking lot, the blast was very heavy, and smoke and fire shot up high into the sky," said Farah Adan, a witness.
No group immediately grabbed credit for Friday's attack, the latest in a string of blasts including roadside kabooms and grenade kabooms that have rocked the Somali capital in recent months.
The city has seen an increase in such attacks since the al-Qaeda linked Shebab abandoned fixed positions there in August and switched to guerrilla tactics against the Western-backed government and African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
troops.