JNN 04 Nov 2012 Mogadishu : Two consecutive Suicide bombers attack have injured several people at a restaurant in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, police sources report. A security guard died while fending off suicide bombers who were trying to storm into a popular Mogadishu restaurant.

Yusuf Abdi said Saturday that security guards at the gate of The Village restaurant shot at the two suicide bomber who tried to enter without going through the security check.

“Other people who stayed in the place were injured. We are still investigating the casualties,” said Adnan.
Abdi said the bombers detonated their explosives killing one guard. The blast shattered the restaurant’s glass windows and punctured the tires of luxury cars parked outside.

Ahmed Salad Ibrahim, an eyewitness, said that a security guard at the restaurant had been killed in the explosion. However, police sources did not immediately confirm the report.

Idle Husien, another witness, also said there had been a “heavy exchange of gunfire before the heavy explosions,” adding that he could see the injured people and dead bodies of the bombers.

The attack was likely carried out by the Islamist extremist rebels of al-Shabab which has been fighting the Somali government for nearly five years. Africa Union forces pushed the al-Qaida affiliated group out of Mogadishu in August 2011 but the rebels continue to carry out suicide attacks in the capital.

In September, at least 14 people were killed and more than 37 others injured in double bomb attacks at a restaurant which is popular with civil servants and journalists and is close to the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

Somalia has not had an effective central government since 1991 when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.

Lawmakers meeting in Mogadishu elected Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as the new president of Somalia with a big majority on September 10, 2012.