Scene of the car bomb attack
A suicide bomber killed at least four people in central Somalia on Sunday, a security source said , in an attack claimed by the Al -Qaeda -aligned Shabaab movement.
Mohamed Abdulkarim, a security official in the town of Beledweyne , 300 kilometres ( 190 miles ) north of the capital Mogadishu, said the bomber “detonated himself at a tea shop in front of the regional headquarters and four people died , all of them civilians .”
Thirteen others were wounded , he told AFP .
Witness Osman Adan said there was a “huge blast … there were several dead bodies and wounded people strewn in the area . ”
Shabaab militants claimed Sunday’s attack, which the group said had killed six “soldiers ”, including three serviceman from neighbouring Djibouti .
The Shabaab have sworn to overthrow Somalia’ s fragile government, which is kept in place with international support .
The Shabaab force was pushed out of the capital in August 2011 and lost most of its other bastions in Somalia .
But they still control vast swathes of countryside , from where they launch guerilla operations and suicide attacks, against the capital and against local and international military bases
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