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Medical unit transportation a assemblage aft a car weaponry onslaught astatine a Presidential Palace checkpoint successful Mogadishu, Somalia, Saturday Sept. 25, 2021. Police said a conveyance laden with explosives rammed into cars and trucks astatine a checkpoint starring to the entranceway of the Presidential Palace, sidesplitting astatine slightest 8 people. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

MOGADISHU – A conveyance laden with explosives rammed into cars and trucks astatine a checkpoint starring to the entranceway of the Presidential Palace successful Somalia, sidesplitting astatine slightest 8 people, constabulary said Saturday.

The checkpoint is the 1 utilized by Somalia’s president and premier curate connected their mode to and from the airdrome successful Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.

Nine different radical were wounded successful the bombing, constabulary spokesperson Abdifatah Adam Hassan said.

The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist radical has claimed responsibility. The radical often carries retired specified attacks successful the capital.

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