A Shabaab suicide bomber drove an explosives-packed car into a restaurant near an intelligence headquarters in Mogadishu, killing at least 12 people, including intelligence officers, and injuring eight others. Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, military spokesman for the al Qaeda-linked group, said the attack was part of Shabaab’s operations in the capital and that such operations would continue. In separate attacks in Mogadishu earlier this week, Shabaab militants gunned down a female tea shop owner, opened fire on a female polio vaccinator as she was working, and shot and beheaded a woman and her son in the Yaqshid district.
