Four killed in Somalia suicide bombing

A suicide bomber killed at least four people and injured several others yesterday when he detonated a car packed with explosives in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. “A suicide bomber drove a car loaded with explosives into the entrance of Wardhigley District offices,” security official Mohamed Samow said. The district mayor, who was in the building at the time, escaped unharmed. Although responsibility for the attack was not immediately claimed, Al Shabab militants have a history of targeting government buildings in the capital. The Al Qaeda-linked extremists were chased out of Mogadishu in 2011 but still control large parts of rural Somalia, from where they orchestrate attacks.