Somalia's al Shabaab injures police in Mogadishu car bomb


  • World
  • Sunday, 01 Mar 2015

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali militants al Shabaab detonated a car bomb in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday, injuring two police officers, police and a spokesman for the Islamists said.

The al Qaeda-affiliated group was pushed out of Mogadishu by African peacekeeping forces in 2011 but has waged a series of gun and grenade attacks to try to overthrow the government and impose its strict version of sharia law.

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