People collect outdoors their destroyed retailers after a suicide bomber detonated on the Banadir regional administration in Mogadishu on Sunday.

Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP

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Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP

People collect outdoors their destroyed retailers after a suicide bomber detonated on the Banadir regional administration in Mogadishu on Sunday.

Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia’s authorities says 5 civilians had been killed when al-Qaida-linked extremists stormed a regional authorities workplace within the capital on Sunday.

The founding father of the Aamin ambulance service, Abdulkadir Adan, advised The Associated Press his staff collected 16 wounded folks from the scene.

The al-Shabab extremist group claimed accountability for the assault on the Banadir Regional Administration headquarters in Mogadishu.

A employees member on the headquarters mentioned the assault started with a suicide bombing earlier than gunmen entered and exchanged hearth with safety guards. The staffer, Mustafa Abdulle, mentioned a lot of the staff had been rescued by safety forces.

Al-Shabab typically carries out assaults in Mogadishu. The federal authorities final yr declared “total war” on the extremist group and has retaken numerous communities the fighters had managed in central and southern Somalia.