Mogadishu: Three people were killed and six wounded in a car bomb blast outside a popular restaurant in the centre of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, police said.

The attack is the latest in a string of bombings in the war-torn Horn of Africa nation, where Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab Islamists are fighting to topple the government. "There are at least three dead, and six others have been injured," police officer Ahmed Warhere told AFP.