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Al Shabaab car bomb kills at least six in central Mogadishu

People look at debris at the site of a blast in Mogadishu, Somalia. [Reuters]

At least six people were killed when a suicide car bomb struck a local government office in central Mogadishu on Sunday, destroying the building and a Quranic school opposite.

Islamist militant group Al Shabaab said it was behind the attack on Hawlwadag district office, which also blew off the roof of a mosque and damaged houses nearby.

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