AhlulBayt News Agency - A police official says an attack on a security facility in the Somali capital has left at least nine people dead, including four attackers.
Capt. Mohamed Hussein said suspected militants from the extremist group al-Shabab carried out the attack Sunday on the Central Investigations Department in Mogadishu.
He said the assault started with twin suicide car bombings at the gates of the security facility. After that, at least two gunmen on foot fought their way inside.
Ali Hassan, a police officer at the Central Investigations Department, said that security forces foiled the assault and shot dead the gunmen who tried to storm the heavily fortified security facility.
It was the second major attack in the city this week by the militants who have kept up their war on the Western-backed government in the face of US drone strikes and African peacekeeping forces.
The attacks come as Somalia is campaigning for a presidential election due in August.
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