JUST IN: 18 feared dead, 25 wounded in Somalia terror attack

At least eighteen people and several injured today by a suicide car bomb in Mogadishu, Somali according to local officials and eyewitnesses.

A local official of the security services, Mohamed Jilibey, pointed out that many people stood at this intersection when the explosion occurred.

The attack is first of its kind in Mogadishu since February 8, the election of the new Somali president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, alias Farmajo, two children had been reported killed by gunfire on the day of the handover ceremony between Farmajo and his predecessor.

The attack on Sunday (today) targeted a very busy intersection of the neighborhood in the Southern part of the capital. “There are many stalls along the road, small shops, restaurants, and tea houses,” Sumayo Moalim,a witness,had told AFP.

This type of attack is generally attributed to the al-Shabaab militants, who were driven out of the capital in 2011, but they continue to control large rural areas and carry out attacks against the Somali military and those of the African Union (Amisom).

By Shade Onabanjo