At least 15 people have been killed after a suicide car bomber posing as a milk delivery van detonated at a district headquarters in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, police said.
The death toll may rise, as some of the at least nine wounded were badly hurt in the explosion at Wadajir district headquarters in Mogadishu, Captain Mohamed Hussein told The Associated Press.
Most of the dead were civilians, Hussein said.
A column of white smoke was seen above the capital and some houses were rattled by the blast, DPA news agency reported.
“We heard a huge explosion in Wadajir district, there are some casualties,” Abdifatah Omar Halane, the spokesman for Mogadishu’s mayor, said.
Al-Shabaab said they were behind the blast.
