Muslims Kill Six in Attack on Turkish Embassy in Somalia

The Ramadan bloodshed continues.

Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN) -- Blood and body parts littered the ground outside Turkey's embassy in Somalia on Saturday afternoon, the grisly result of a blast that police said left six dead and nine wounded.

A minivan packed with explosives went off around 5 p.m. in the heart of Mogadishu, just a few meters from the Turkish diplomatic post, said police Col. Ahmed Mohamud.

When it was over, two Somali security guards, a university student and three attackers were dead, according to Mohamud.

Turkish embassy sources said that two of its staff members were among the wounded.

Somali police and Turkish embassy guards, meanwhile, converged on the scene. Mangled buses and cars ended up in a disfigured heap, while the windows of numerous nearby apartments were shattered.

Al-Shabaab -- a militant Islamist group with connections to al Qaeda -- claimed responsibility for the attack.

"We are behind the martyrdom explosion," the group claimed via Twitter. "The Turkish were our main target." (Continue Reading.)