Most of them were government soldiers.
At least 10 other people
were injured in the blast after a minivan packed with explosives crashed
into a restaurant and blew up, sending flames and black smoke into the
air.
Al-Shabaab rebels claimed
responsibility for the attack, which spokesman Sheikh Abdiaziz Abu
Musab said killed 15 security force members.
The injured were taken to a nearby hospital, Aden said.
The restaurant is popular with Somali security forces.
Last week, militants carried out a deadly attack on Somalia's presidential palace, exploding a bomb and then opening fire.
At least 12 died,
including two government officials and seven Al-Shabaab attackers, but
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was unharmed.
Bombings have rattled Mogadishu in regular intervals this year, and Al-Shabaab has regularly taken responsibility for them.
The group, which the
United States has designated as a terrorist organization, hopes to turn
Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic state by force. It also has
launched attacks in other countries, such as Kenya and Uganda, that have
killed dozens.
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