Several killed as Car Bomb explodes near Somali Presidential Palace

Several people have been killed and many others injured after a car bomb exploded outside the Somali parliament compound near the presidential palace in the capital Mogadishu. The police said the bomb went off near the heavily fortified zone at about 9 a.m. local time (0600 GMT) on Saturday. Security officers stand around the site of a car bombing attack near a security checkpoint in Mogadishu, Somalia.  The car packed with explosives sped through a security checkpoint in front of the Wehliye Hotel popular with government officials, lawmakers and the city’s elite, and detonated at the security checkpoint to…