United Nations guards wounded by bomb blast outside compound
A CAR bomb wounded at least four U.N. guards when it exploded near a United Nations compound in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police said.
Four United Nations guards were injured when a car bomb exploded in Mogadishu, Somalia
Al Qaeda-allied al Shabaab insurgents claimed responsibility for the attack.
“We can confirm that four guards working for the United Nations were injured,” Major Nur Osman, a policeman at the scene, said.
Al Qaeda-allied al Shabaab insurgents have carried out several attacks in the capital
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The bomb was planted in a car parked in a garage outside facilities belonging to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Major Osman said.
“We are behind the blast that injured at least three U.N. guards this morning,” al Shabaab's spokesman on military operations, Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, said.
The militants often carry out such attacks in the capital in their fight to topple the Western-backed government and impose an strict interpretation of Islam on Somali territory.