By Nour Geidi

Two Somalis were killed and three others injured in a car bombing outside a hotel in central Mogadishu, eyewitnesses said.

A bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into the garage of the Makkah Al-Mukarama hotel, which is popular with government officials, the witnesses said.

The attack caused damage to several cars.

Somali authorities have yet to comment on the attack, for which no group has yet claimed responsibility.

Somalia has suffered from on-again, off-again violence since the outbreak of civil war in 1991.

The country had appeared to inch closer to stability with the recent installation of a new government and the intervention of African Union troops tasked with combatting Somalia’s Al-Shabaab militant group.

Source: Anandolu Agency