Smoke was billowing into the sky after a car bomb went off inside the compound of the building housing a police unit against crime, witnesses told Xinhua.
The blast rattled Mogadishu, but Lt. Aden Kalmoy Dhaqane, a military official, said the explosion wounded only two people.
Police officer Dahir Mohammed said authorities had arrested two suspected suicide car bombers earlier Friday and had taken their car into the headquarters of the criminal investigations department, where it exploded. Mohammed said officials suspect it was detonated by a remote trigger.
Al-Shabaab linked to Al-Qaida has escalated attacks in the war- torn capital recently, although under mounting pressure from the government forces, the African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission, the Kenyan military operation in the south of the Horn of Africa country and the anti-terror action by Ethiopia.
Al-Shabaab was driven out of Mogadishu in August 2011 by the government and AU peacekeeping forces. The latest attack came after Al-Qaida announced the merger with Al-Shabab a few days ago.
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