Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab's spokesman for military
operations, said his group was behind the car bomb in Kismayu.
A Somali
woman walks past the scene of a suicide car bomb attack near Juba hotel
in capital Mogadishu
At least 21 people were killed in two separate suicide car attacks in Somalia on Saturday, one in Mogadishu and another at a military training base in the southern port city of Kismayu, police and military sources said.
Islamist militant group al Shabaab
has lost control of most of their territories to African Union troops
in recent years but they stepped up attacks in Mogadishu and elsewhere.
Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab's spokesman for military operations, said his group was behind the car bomb in Kismayu.
The attack at Kismayu University,
which is being used as a base for training government troops, was
launched as soldiers were lining up for training, military officials
said.
Colonel Ahmed Ato told Reuters at least 16 Somali soldiers were killed and 21 others were wounded in the blast.
The
second car exploded in the capital Mogadishu at a busy junction in the
evening. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the
Mogadishu attack.
"So far we know 5 civilians died
in this evening's blast and 7 others were injured," Mohamed Yusuf, the
spokesman for the interior security ministry told reporters at the
scene.
A Reuters reporter saw two burnt-out cars and a destroyed tea shop with blood stains nearby.
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