Claimed by the Al-Shabaab Islamist group, the assault was a sign of the insurgency's continued ability to strike at the heart of Somalia's government, despite years of foreign military support for Mogadishu.
MOGADISHU - An attack involving gunmen and bomb blasts on a complex housing government ministries in Somalia's capital killed at least five people on Saturday, including the deputy labour minister, officials said.
"I cannot elaborate on how he died but I can confirm that he was killed inside the ministry building," Hassan said."There were some other casualties including members of the police," he said, without elaborating. In 2010 the Shabaab declared their allegiance to Al-Qaeda. The following year, the group were chased out of Mogadishu by the 22,000-strong African Union peace-enforcement mission, AMISOM.
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