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In Mogadishu, a vehicle exploded when security forces shot him while attacking a police post.
A bomb blast at a restaurant in the southern Somali town of Baidoa killed six people, officials told the BBC.
There was also a suicide bomb attack near the capital’s port, Mogadishu, which wounded at least seven.
The militant al-Shabab group said it was behind both incidents.
The UN-backed government has been fighting al-Shabab for control of the country for more than a decade.
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The militants, who are allied with al-Qaeda, said that in Baidoa they were targeting tax collectors, who were holding a meeting at the restaurant, and soldiers.
They added that two soldiers were killed in the attack, but authorities said all the victims were civilians.
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Al-Shabab said he was behind the attack in Mogadishu (pictured) and in Baidoa.
Police told the BBC that in Mogadishu, officers opened fire on a vehicle after it did not stop at a checkpoint.
The suicide bomber driving the car is said to have attempted to hit a police post in front of the port, but was shot at by security forces and the vehicle exploded.
Two policemen and five passers-by were injured.
“The metal debris fell on us inside the port and we heard gunshots,” a port worker told Reuters.
