Vehicles burn at the scene of an explosion in Mogadishu, Somalia, July 30, 2017. REUTERS/Feisal Omar
MOGADISHU: A car bomb went off on a busy street in the Somali capital on Sunday, sending huge cloud of smoke into the sky, a police officer said.
The bomb exploded as the car was driving in the busy Maka al Mukaram road, the police officer told Reuters. "It is a busy area. We do not yet know the figure of casualties," the police officer, Major Hussein Nur, told Reuters.
Meanwhile, Associated Press quoted a police officer saying the car bomb blast near a police station in Somalia's capital has killed at least five people and wounded at least 13 others.
Capt Mohamed Hussein says the explosion near Waberi police station along the busy Maka Almukarramah road may have been a suicide bomber.
Most of the victims are civilians.
The exact target of the blast remains unclear.
The Somalia-based extremist group al-Shabab often carries out deadly bombings in Mogadishu.
