Car bomb rams restaurant in Somalia

A car full of explosives Saturday in the Somali capital Mogadishu crashed into a restaurant.

Least seven people were injured. Local residents said the restaurant is frequented mostly by members of the internal security services.

The attack was claimed by the Islamic extremist movement al-Shabaab, which previously staged similar attacks in Mogadishu. In a statement, a spokesman for al-Shabaab announced that they had coined by the staff of the nearby prison, where rebels held in underground cells.