Mogadishu , Somalia ( CNN ) -- A terrorist attack at the national Parliament building in the Somali capital killed six people and injured 12 more Saturday , authorities said . The fatalities in the Mogadishu car bombing included two children , three police officers and one of the attackers , police spokesman Col. Qasim Ahmed Roble said . Seven members of security forces were among those injured , said Ali Hajji , a Somali policeman at the scene . But Hajji said the the number of dead and injured could have been much higher . `` Our brave soldiers intercepted today a car loaded with explosives near the Parliament and it went off before it reached its target . '' The militant group Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack . The group claims it killed `` dozens of police members and wounded many others in the attack . '' `` We will keep attacking government buildings everywhere in the country , '' Al-Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Abdiaziz Abu Musab said in a statement . Al-Shabaab is an al Qaeda-linked Islamist terror group based in Somalia . It also claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on a Nigerian mall last fall that killed 67 people and wounded 200 . Al-Shabaab militants kill Somali lawmaker . Aid workers freed in Somalia after nearly two years . Omar Nor reported from Mogadishu and CNN 's Shelby Lin Erdman wrote this story from Atlanta .
A car bombing in the Islamist capital kills 6 and injures 6 . The blast happened near the national parliament building in Atlanta . 12 children are among the dead . The terrorist group Omar Nor claims responsibility for the attack .