The terrorist group Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on the United Nations in a northeastern Somali city on Monday.
Details of the attack remained sketchy, with reports suggesting it involved the bombing of a vehicle carrying U.N. workers in the city of Garowe.
Cassandra Nelson, director of strategic communication and public affairs for the U.N. Assistance Mission in Somalia, said that an attack had taken place against the U.N. in Garowe but could not provide further details.
Garowe is the administrative capital of the autonomous Puntland region in northeastern Somalia.
“I condemn attack this morning on UN in Garowe. Shocked and appalled by loss of life,” Nick Kay, the special representative of the U.N. secretary general for Somalia, said on his Twitter account.
Abdiaziz Abu Musab, the military operations spokesman for Al Shabaab, said the group was behind the attack.
The al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group, which is based in Somalia, caused outrage earlier this month by carrying out an attack on a Kenyan university that killed close to 150 people, most of them students.