At least five people were killed Wednesday in a car bombing in front of a police academy in the Somali capital Mogadishu, police said, according to dpa. The victims included three police officers and two civilians who were sitting in a nearby restaurant, senior police officer Ali Hirsi Ali Gab said. The suspected would-be suicide car bomber, who was thought to have been catapulted out of the car by the explosion, was in a coma. The group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack on pro-insurgent radio Andalus. Elsewhere in Mogadishu, a bomb that was being transported on a motorcycle went off accidentally, injuring the driver who was arrested, police officer Mohamed Dahir said. Two other people who were also travelling on the same motorcycle escaped.
