Deaths by assault on Mogadishu market

An attack with a car bomb at a police checkpoint near a busy market in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday at least ten people killed.

More than a dozen people were injured. The whole market in the Waberi district was in ruins, said a police spokesman.

In Somalia are now spread out over several weeks held elections for a new parliament. Some 14 000 people from the various states have chosen to elect 275 representatives in parliament, who eventually appoint a president. According to al-Shabaab are all candidates pallbearers from abroad.