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At least seven people were killed and 10 others injured in the attack, according to police sources.
A suicide bomber blew himself up in an ice cream parlor in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, killing seven people, a police officer said.
Ten others were injured in Friday’s attack, said senior police officer Mohamed Dahir. The death toll could rise as the seriously injured are rushed to nearby hospitals, he added.
Gelato Divino Restaurant is located near the K4 junction in the heart of Mogadishu, near the international airport.
This latest attack comes days after five people died in Mogadishu on November 17 after a suicide bomber blew himself up in a restaurant near a police academy.
It was not immediately clear who was responsible for Friday’s blast, but the armed group al-Shabab, which is allied with al-Qaeda, frequently carries out bombings in the capital and elsewhere, including the attack on 17 of November.
Thousands of people have been killed in clashes between the armed group and Somali government forces in the past 30 years.
In August, 10 civilians and a police officer were killed in an al-Shabab gun and bomb attack at a luxury beachfront hotel in the capital.
That same month, four al-Shabab fighters detained in Mogadishu’s central prison were killed in a meeting with security forces after they somehow managed to seize weapons inside the facility.
At least seven people were killed in another attack in August when a car bomb exploded at an army base in Mogadishu, where members of the Somali National Army (SNA) were stationed.
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