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Bomb kills seven at police station in Somali capital

Thursday June 22 2017
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Somali policemen secure the scene of an explosion near Waberi police station station in Mogadishu, Somalia on June 22, 2017. REUTERS PHOTO | FEISAL OMAR

At least seven people were killed and several others wounded when a vehicle packed with explosives hit a police station in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday.

The attack on Waberi Police Station was the second bombing in the city within two days.

The police station is located along Maka-al-Mukarrama Avenue, a major highway that links the Aden Abdulle International Airport and Villa Somalia, the State House.

"We carried seven dead people and 12 others injured from the scene," Abdikadir Abdirahman, director of the Amin ambulance service, told Reuters. 

Jihadist group Al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack.

On Tuesday, a car bomb exploded at the headquarters of Wadajir District in South Mogadishu and was quickly claimed by the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab. It killed at least ten people.

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Despite the tightening of the city’s security over the holy month of Ramadhan, the militants have managed to wage deadly attacks in the Somali capital.

The last decade

The Al-Shabaab group aims to impose a Taliban-style rule on Somalia, a cause for which it has been fighting for the last decade.

The group has also launched attacks in Kenya and Uganda.

Kenya and Uganda have both contributed to a 22,000-strong African Union force in Somalia.

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