Car Bomb Kills 8 People in Mogadishu (Video)

Huge suicide car bomb explosion rocked the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, killing at least eight people, the head of the city's ambulance services revealed.

Mogadishu resident Mohamed Osman said the blast hit the walls and roof of a mosque he was praying in nearby.

"When I came out of the mosque, I saw several old houses collapsed, body parts on the street, hands, legs," Osman told Reuters.

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"Destroyed cars, burnt Tuk tuks (rickshaws); all this mess and loss of lives in a minute, I survived."

Osman added that he had seen nine bodies at the scene.

However, Abdikadir Abdirahman, director of Aamin Ambulance service, confirmed the death toll of eight.

"A car bomb targeted a convoy, including bulletproof cars using Avisione street, we do not who owns the convoy. We carried eight dead people from the scene," Abdirahman told Reuters.

It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the bombing.

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