Seven killed in car bomb near Somali Palace

ESAT News (March 21, 2017)

At least seven people are reportedly killed, and several wounded in a car bomb attack near the gate of Somalia’s Presidential Palace in Mogadishu on Tuesday afternoon.

Shabelle News reported that the car bomb went off at a busy security checkpoint outside the National Theatre, next to the second gate of Villa Somalia. Seven people, including 4 civilians died in the attack.

According to the report no group has yet claimed responsibility for the car bomb, which rocked Mogadishu hours after the Prime Minister Hassan Ali Kheyre has appointed his new cabinet ministers.