Suicide Car Bomb Kills Three near Somali Parliament

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A suicide car bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint near Somalia’s parliament, in the capital Mogadishu, on Sunday, March 25.

Abdikadir Abdirahman, director of Amin ambulances, the city’s sole rescue service, said that three people had been killed, excluding the bomber, and one injured.

The bomb went off at the heavily guarded Sayidka checkpoint.

The Al-Qaeda-linked militant group, Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility. Al-Shabaab frequently carries out bombings and other attacks in Mogadishu to topple Somalia’s Western-backed federal government.

At least 14 people were killed on Thursday when Al-Shabaab set off a bomb outside a busy Mogadishu hotel.