Somalia Rocked By Bomb And Gun Attacks

At least 16 people have been killed in a series of bomb and gun attacks in Somalia.

Militants launched a sustained assault on the law courts in the capital Mogadishu.

Two car bombs were set off and the complex was stormed before the gang took hostages and a gun battle erupted with security forces.

Hussein Ali, who works at the courts, said: "Armed men entered the court and then we heard a blast. Then they started opening fire."

Government forces arrived and besieged the court buildings and there was a second blast while shots continued to ring out.

Somali forces at the scene of the assault

Gunmen were also seen on the roof of a court building firing shots during the attack which lasted several hours.

Some of those who were in the compound managed to escape the crossfire by locking themselves in a room or taking cover.

"I never expected to make it out alive," said Halima Geddi, who fled the complex two hours after the raid.

She said she had taken cover behind an outer wall.

"There is no peace. No one protects us. I came to see my boy who was supposed to be tried here," she said.

Smoke is seen rising from one of the court buildings

Somalia's interior minister Abdikarim Hussein Guled said all nine attackers were dead.

Six detonated suicide vests and three others were shot and killed during Sunday's assault.

The exact number of victims is unknown, but it is thought that they include government officials and civilians.

A further car bomb exploded at a building housing Somali intelligence on a road near Mogadishu airport hours later.

It was not immediately clear who carried out the attacks, but al Shabaab militants - an Islamic extremist rebel group linked to al Qaeda - has claimed responsibility for several suicide bombings in Mogadishu this year.

In control of much of the capital between 2009 and 2011, the group has been forced out of most major cities in central and southern Somalia by African Union peacekeepers.

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