At least 32 killed in Somali beach attack, police say

Around 63 others were injured in a suicide attack carried out by al-Shabab militants in Mogadishu.

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Abdifatah Adan Hassan said around 63 people were also wounded, some of them critically.

Video footage showed a number of bodies and injured people in Mogadishu's Abdiaziz district.

Al-Shabab controls large parts of southern and central Somalia. The group is affiliated to al-Qaeda and has waged a brutal insurgency for nearly 20 years against the UN-backed government in Somalia.

In a statement claiming the attack, al-Shabab said "politicians, [security] forces and employees from various ministries and offices" were among those killed.

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