Five soldiers and police were killed in the Somali capital on Saturday and a dozen others were wounded in bomb and gun attacks by Islamist militants, police and witnesses said. Al Shabaab fighters, who have threatened to step up attacks during the Muslim fasting month of Ramazan, said they detonated a car bomb that killed two soldiers guarding the Somali parliament, a few hundred metres from the presidential compound.
"This is our second attack against the parliament building and we shall continue it," said Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab's spokesman for military operations. Police said soldiers guarding the parliament building had prevented it reaching its target.
Police said two soldiers were killed and four wounded. The al Qaeda-affiliated al Shabaab militants killed a lawmaker and his bodyguard in an attack on Thursday, accusing them of collaborating with Christians - a reference to backing Mogadishu gets from Western powers and the African Union.
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