Car in high speed explodes in Somali capital after police shot at it

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Somali security force personnel walk among debris at the site of a car bomb explosion near the building of the Interior Ministry in Mogadishu on July 7, 2018. Two explosions have rocked Somalia's internal security ministry in the capital Mogadishu, killing five civilians, a police officer said, in the latest attack claimed by Shabaab militants. / AFP PHOTO / Mohamed ABDIWAHAB
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A speeding car exploded in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday after it was shot at by police near the president’s residence, a police officer said.

“The police suspected the speeding car, fired at it and so it exploded outside the hotels near the presidential palace,” Major Mohamed Hussein told Reuters.

It was not immediately clear what the car contained.

In past incidents, al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab have used car bombs to target government buildings in the capital.

Al Shabaab wants to topple Somalia’s central government, expel the African Union-mandated peace keeping force AMISOM and establish a government based on its own strict interpretation of Islamic sharia law.

Reporting by Abdi Sheikh; Writing by George Obulutsa; Editing by Edmund Blair and Mark Potter

Reuters

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