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At least five people were injured in a blast on Sunday at the gates of the mayor’s office in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu and gunfire continued to sound, said a member of the ambulance service who witnessed the event.

Abdikadir Abdirahman, director of Aamin Ambulance Services, says that ambulance staff had so far evacuated five injured people from the scene of the blast.

“We were in the office and we were deafened by a blast, we ran out, gunfire followed,” says Farah Abdullahi, who works in the mayor’s office. Roads in the area have concrete barriers and multiple roadblocks. The building is about one and a half kilometres away from Villa Somalia, the president’s office.

“Our Mujahideen have stormed the well-guarded apostate local government headquarter of Mogadishu, we first started with suicide bombs and then foot fighters entered the building after killing the building guards,” Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab’s military operations spokesperson, said in the statement

 

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