article_snippet.sent: Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN)Gunmen stormed the headquarters of Somalia's education ministry in the country's capital on Tuesday after a suicide car bombing, a two-pronged attack that killed at least 12 people and injured 16 others, officials said.
article_snippet.sent: the attack in the center of Mogadishu began when two suicide bombers detonated two suicide bombers car at the entrance of the two-story building housing the Ministry of Education, Culture & Higher Education, Somali National Security Ministry spokesman Mohamed Yusuf said.
article_snippet.sent: Five gunmen then entered the education ministry building in Mogadishu, shooting people inside, Somali National Security Ministry spokesman Mohamed Yusuf said.
article_snippet.sent: Security guards at the education ministry building in Mogadishu, and, later, Somali special forces battled Five gunmen inside, witnesses said.
article_snippet.sent: Soldiers from the African Union, who are in Somalia in part to support the government's fight against Al-Shabaab, teamed up with Somali security forces to shoot and kill the five attackers, Somali National Security Ministry spokesman Mohamed Yusuf said.
article_snippet.sent: the attack in the center of Mogadishu killed four Somali soldiers and eight civilians, according to Somali National Security Ministry spokesman Mohamed Yusuf.
article_snippet.sent: Somali special forces helped people out of the education ministry building in Mogadishu while the attack in the center of Mogadishu was underway, city police Capt.
article_snippet.sent: Ali Hassan, a man who was helped from the education ministry building in Mogadishu, confirmed that a rescue operation was happening inside.
article_snippet.sent: Earlier this month, Somalia-based Al-Shabaab gunmen stormed Garissa University College in neighboring Kenya, killing 147 people, mostly students.
article_snippet.sent: The terrorists separated Christians from Muslims and shot those who couldn't recite verses from the Quran, witnesses said.
article_snippet.sent: Late last month, Somalia-based Al-Shabaab militants detonated a bomb and sprayed bullets at a Mogadishu hotel, leaving at least 20 people dead in an attack that lasted a number of hours.
highlights_snippet.sent: A car bomb explodes outside the front gate of the education ministry building in Mogadishu .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Assailants storm the education ministry building in Mogadishu and engage in a gunbattle with guards .