Extremists attack on police center in Somalia kills 5

Somali soldiers stand near the wreckage of a car used in a suicide car bomb attack outside the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Mogadishu, Somalia, Sunday, July 31, 2016. Two suicide bombers detonated an explosives-laden car outside the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Mogadishu, killing 9 people, including two bombers, and others were injured, a Somali police official said. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh) Somali soldiers stand near the wreckage of a car used in a suicide car bomb attack outside the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Mogadishu, Somalia, Sunday, July 31, 2016. Two suicide bombers detonated an explosives-laden car outside the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Mogadishu, killing 9 people, including two bombers, and others were injured, a Somali police official said. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

By Associated Press July 31, 2016 1 min read

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – Extremists in Somalia attacked a heavily fortified police center in the capital Sunday, killing at least five people before security forces ended the assault, police said.

Four attackers, including two suicide bombers, were also killed in the attack suspected to be by the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab, said police Capt. Mohamed Hussein.

The attack on the police Criminal Investigations Department in Mogadishu started with twin suicide car bombings at the gates of the security facility. After that, at least two gunmen on foot fought their way inside, Hussein said.

Security forces foiled the assault and shot dead the gunmen who tried to storm the heavily fortified facility, said Ali Hassan, a police officer at the Central Investigations Department.

Al-Shabab is waging an insurgency against Somalia’s weak U.N.-backed government with the goal of establishing an Islamic emirate, ruled by a strict version of Shariah law.