Somali government soldiers gather near the wreckage after a suicide car explosion near the Somali parliament building in Mogadishu July 5, 2014. REUTERS/Feisal Omar
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Five soldiers and police were killed in the Somali capital on Saturday and a dozen others were wounded in bomb and gun attacks by Islamist militants, police and witnesses said.
Al Shabaab fighters, who have threatened to step up attacks during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, said they detonated a car bomb that killed two soldiers guarding the Somali parliament, a few hundred metres from the presidential compound.
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