UPDATE - Death toll from Somali suicide bombing rises to 6

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By Mohammed Dhaysane

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) - At least six people were killed and thirteen others wounded on Thursday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the Somali capital Mogadishu, medical sources said.

The attack took place at the El-gabta intersection near the heavily guarded Somali presidential palace in Mogadishu.

According to medical sources who spoke to Anadolu Agency over the phone, the suicide bomb blast killed six people, mostly civilians, and injured 13 others.

The wounded have been rushed to hospitals for treatment.

Abdifatah Hassan, a police officer in Mogadishu, told Anadolu Agency that the target of the attack was a convoy carrying voters on their way back from an election venue.

"We believe the suicide bomber wanted to target vehicles carrying voters, but it seems that they missed the target," he said.

Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group al-Shabaab confirmed these suspicions, claiming the suicide bombing blast and saying that it had targeted four vehicles carrying the parliamentary elections voters.

This was the third al-Shabaab attack in the Horn of African nation in the past 24 hours.

On Wednesday, the terrorist group fired mortar shells on the town of Barawe in the lower Shabelle region, targeting the town's only polling station. The strike killed at least four people and wounded more than six others.