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| Somali car explodes in Mogadishu's Bakara market | Somali car explodes in Mogadishu's Bakara market |
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| A car has exploded inside the main market in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, police say. | A car has exploded inside the main market in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, police say. |
| There are no details on any casualties from the blast in Bakara market yet. | There are no details on any casualties from the blast in Bakara market yet. |
| Eyewitnesses told the Reuters news agency that the car was carrying men wearing military uniforms. | Eyewitnesses told the Reuters news agency that the car was carrying men wearing military uniforms. |
| No group has said it carried out the blast but al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab has staged many attacks in Mogadishu since being driven out of the city by pro-government forces in 2011. | No group has said it carried out the blast but al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab has staged many attacks in Mogadishu since being driven out of the city by pro-government forces in 2011. |
| Police official Mohamed Hussein said the bomb was concealed inside a Somali military pick-up truck and had wounded at least five government soldiers, AP news agency reports. | |
| Hussein Nur, a money exchanger, said it was a four-wheel drive vehicle that exploded. | |
| "Immediately gunfire opened up. We are not sure who is doing it. The men in the car looked like soldiers," he told Reuters. | |
| Al-Shabab is fighting to create an Islamic state in Somalia - and despite being pushed out of key cities in the past two years still remains in control of smaller towns and large swathes of the countryside. | |
| Some 18,000 African Union troops are in Somalia supporting the government of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who was elected by MPs last September. | |
| His administration is the first one in more than two decades to be recognised by the US and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). |