At Least 5 Dead in Mogadishu Restaurant Bombing

At least five people were killed Tuesday when a car bomb exploded outside a busy restaurant in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. A VOA reporter on the scene says two women were among those who died in the blast. A doctor with the city's ambulance service, Dr. Abdulkadir Abdirahman Aden, tells VOA's Somali Service that another six people were wounded in the explosion, and says the death toll could rise. The targeted restaurant, located near the Hotel Central, is popular...

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