Three Somali ministers are dead after a bomb tore through a hotel where a graduation ceremony was being held this morning.
At least one other person also died in the blast at the Shamo Hotel in Mogadishu today.
It was not clear where the blast came from this morning, but witnesses said it appeared to target the ceremony being held by the Benadir University.
Many government officials were attending.
President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed's Western-backed government is battling Islamist insurgents including the hardline al Shabaab group, which Washington accuses of being al Qaeda's proxy there.
Senior government sources said Health Minister Qamar Aden Ali, Education Minister Ahmed Abdulahi Waayeel and Higher Education Minister Ibrahim Hassan Addow all died in the blast.
Dubai-based Al Arabiya Television said one of its cameramen, Hasan al-Zubair, had also been killed in the explosion.
The coastal city had been tense after supporters of the national police chief took to the streets in protest following rumours Ahmed planned to sack him.
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