Car Bomb Explodes Outside Somali Parliament

A security guard was reportedly killed after a luxury vehicle packed with bombs exploded at a parking area next to parliament as MPs were walking out of the building.

The wreckage of the car bomb after it exploded outside a Somali government building in Mogadishu on February 17, 2012.

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