Suicide bombing in Somalia's capital leaves several dead
Suicide bomber detonates himself at a tea shop in Mogadishu, killing five people including a child, police say.
Suicide bomber detonated himself at a tea shop frequented by the youth, police say.
Five civilians, including a child, have been killed when a suicide bomber detonated himself at a tea shop in Mogadishu, Somalia's police said.
"Around 7 pm in the evening, a suicide bomber detonated himself at a tea shop frequented by the youth," police spokesman Sadiq Dudishe said in a statement on Saturday.
"Six people, four of them youth, a child, and the suicide bomber died in the blast. Four others were wounded."
'I saw several dead bodies'
A witness said the bomber walked into a crowd who were drinking tea in an open area near a police station.
"I was getting out of a restaurant just a few hundred metres away from where the blast occurred, I was shocked by the blast and it was huge. I saw people rushing to the scene and wounded being carried," said witness Ali Mohamed.
"Police cordoned off the area, but I saw several dead bodies carried away in an ambulance, they were young men, two of them from the neighbourhood where I live," he added.
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