NEW : Al - Shabaab claims responsibility ; the slain official worked with ' foreign ' spies . NEW `` Shedding the blood of innocent civilians has no basis in our Islamic religion or in Somali culture , '' he said . : Hospital : 8 people killed are treated at a Mogadishu hospital . In a separate bombing , a man 's car explodes but he is unhurt . Al - Qaeda 's mission is transforming Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic state .
NEW : Al - Shabaab claims responsibility ; the slain official worked with ' foreign ' spies . NEW : Hospital : 8 people killed are treated at a Mogadishu hospital . In a separate bombing , a man 's car explodes but he is unhurt . Al - Qaeda 's mission is transforming Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic state .