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A suicide bomber rammed a car laden with explosives into a cafe in central Mogadishu on May 8, killing at least eight people in an attack claimed by the Islamist militant group al Shabaab.

Bursts of gunfire followed the attack, which targeted the Italian Coffee cafeteria, located near the passport office. A Reuters photographer saw corpses sprawled on the ground at the scene of the blast.

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