The attacks in Somalia, that left 25 people wounded, is being blamed on the Al Shabaab terror group.

The first of the bombs exploded at military checkpoint near the Presidential Palac which a frequent target of jihadis.

Nine people were killed in that blast.

A second explosion  appears to have killed the suicide bomber and his accomplice near the airport which houses the offices of a number of diplomatic missions.

Al Shabaab is responsible for the truck bomb in October  2017 that killed more than 500 people.

It was the deadliest extremist operation  since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001.

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