Security forces stand guard on a destroyed building following a car bomb claimed by al Shabaab militants outside the president's palace in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, August 30, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS
At least one person died and two others were injured in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday when a car exploded near a camp for displaced people, police said.
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"We believe it was a suicide car bomb. Its driver detonated the bomb in his car," police officer Ibrahim Elmi told Reuters.
The blast was in Mogadishu's Bondeere district, near a site where hundreds of people displaced by fighting elsewhere in the anarchic country are being temporarily sheltered.
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There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the al Shabaab militant group has carried out a series of deadly attacks in Somalia.
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