Mogadishu (June 15, 2017): A suicide car bombing and assault by Shabaab militants on two neighbouring restaurants here in Somalian capital ended this left 17 dead and 26 injured.
The attack began at around 8pm Wednesday evening with a suicide car bombing at the Post Treats restaurant and club, after which gunmen stormed inside the nearby Pizza House restaurant.
Both venues are popular with affluent, young and diaspora Somalis and were busy as customers broke the Ramadan fast.
The gunmen spent the night roaming the restaurant killing those they found trapped before they were eventually killed by the security forces.
