A car bomb struck a local government office in Mogadishu in a suicide attack on Sunday, police said.
The blast destroyed a building and a school opposite to the office, in addition to damaging the roof of a mosque and some nearby houses, Reuters reported.
Ambulances took casualties to hospitals while people were still looking for survivors.
"A suicide car bomb rammed into the district office of Howlwadaag in Mogadishu. It is too early to know casualties," according to police officer, Abdullahi Hussein.
A Reuters journalist on the scene saw a human hand and blood stains in the rubble.
Somalia has been convulsed by lawlessness and violence since 1991.
