Popular beachfront restaurants in the Somali capital Mogadishu have been hit by car bombs and gunmen on Thursday. A police official said a suicide car bomber rammed the gates of a restaurant near a beach in the capital and then gunmen fought their way into the building.
Popular beachfront restaurants in the Somali capital Mogadishu have been hit by car bombs and gunmen on Thursday. A police official said a suicide car bomber rammed the gates of a restaurant near a beach in the capital and then gunmen fought their way into the building.
"The first car bomb went off in the early evening, followed soon after by as many as five gunmen approaching from the beach. A second car bomb went off half an hour later," BBC reports.
There is no group that could carry out the bombing but suspicion has fallen on al-Shabab which have similar attacks in the past. "Al Shabaab, a militant group which is aligned with al Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the attack on the Beach View Cafe on Mogadishu's popular Lido beach," informs New York Daily News.
Lido Beach, on the north of Mogadishu, attracts thousands of Somalis looking to relax and enjoy the beach and the surf.
