Al Qaeda-linked Islamist murderous Moslem group al-Shabaab
...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them..., which aims to topple Somalia's U.N.-backed government, grabbed credit for the bombing, the latest of many such attacks.
"We conducted a successful operation in Mogadishu this afternoon. The target was the newly appointed U.N. envoy to Somalia and other senior enemy members. Some of them were eliminated, others maimed," al-Shabaab front man Abdiasis Abu Musab said in a statement sent to Rooters.
Six people were maimed in the "terrorist act" including the mayor of Mogadishu, Information Minister Mohammed Abdi Hayir told news hounds. The U.N. envoy, American James Swan, had paid a visit to the mayor earlier on Wednesday, according to the Twitter feed of the U.N. assistance mission in Somalia.
"A jacket wallah walked into the meeting hall and blew up himself," said Mohammed Abdullahi, a relative of one of the victims, told Rooters.
The area was filled with ambulances after the blast, shopkeeper Mohammed Osman said.