More deaths from Somalia attack

The death toll of the attack with two car bombs in the Somali capital Mogadishu has risen from eighteen to 45.

The explosions were Friday near the presidential palace and a hotel. Terror group al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility. According to the police, strangers opened fire on security personnel at a checkpoint. Then a bomb went off. The other car that flew into the air was parked in front of the hotel.

In October, a suicide bomber blew himself into a truck full of explosives at a busy intersection in the city. More than three hundred people were killed. Somali Islamic fundamentalists from al-Shabaab have been active in Somalia for several years.