Four people have been killed by a suicide bomber who blew himself up on Wednesday at the compound of Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed in an attack claimed by Al-Qaeda affiliated Shebab rebels.
The Shebab claimed responsibility for the attack, saying one of its suicide bombers had killed 17 people and wounded 30.
“The mujahideen carried out a spectacular martyrdom operation inside the presidential palace of the apostate Somali regime” the group said in a Twitter post.
Police spokesman Abdulahi Hasan Barise disclosed that six others were injured in the attack.
Another police official, Mohamed Adan, said the attacker blew himself up at at the gate of Somali parliament speaker’s residence, which is also located at the Villa Somalia compound that houses the presidency.
In October, the militia carried out its deadliest suicide attack in the capital when a bomber rammed an explosives-laded vehicle into a government compound, killing at least 82 people.
