Story highlights Terror group Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attackThe explosion happens near the presidential palace hours after a new Cabinet appointment(CNN) Extremist group Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for a deadly explosion that police say killed 10 people Tuesday afternoon in Mogadishu, Somalia. The blast was caused by an explosive-laden vehicle about 150 meters from the entrance of Villa Somalia, the presidential palace in Mogadishu, Ibrahim said. The attack occurred hours after Somalia Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khayre appointed his new Cabinet. The dead include a soldier who attempted to fend off the car bomb, and several women selling Khat on the roadside, said Abdifitah Omar Halane, a spokesman for the Mogadishu mayor. Local ambulances rushed in and carried away wounded to hospitals in Mogadishu.

Source: CNN March 21, 2017 23:26 UTC