A sui­cide bomber det­o­nated him­self in­side a mil­i­tary train­ing fa­cil­ity in So­ma­li­a’s cap­i­tal on Mon­day killing sev­eral peo­ple and wound­ing scores, ac­cord­ing to po­lice and mil­i­tary of­fi­cials.

A sui­cide bomber dis­guised as a mem­ber of the mil­i­tary man­aged to en­ter in­side the train­ing camp… sev­eral sol­diers were killed and oth­ers wounded but we have not es­tab­lished the ex­act num­ber so far,” Lieu­tenant Colonel Mo­hamed Ab­di­rah­man told AFP.

The ca­su­al­ties are re­ported to be all sol­diers.

Al-Shabaab mil­i­tants have claimed re­spon­si­bil­ity for the at­tack through pro-Shabaab me­dia out­lets. The group claims to have killed 24 peo­ple in the at­tack but gov­ern­ment sources say the death toll is at least 10.

Mil­i­tant in­sur­gency group Al-Shabaab is ex­pected to be be­hind the string of re­cent blasts tar­get­ing gov­ern­ment and civil­ian in­stal­la­tions.

The sui­cide bomb at­tack comes a mere hours af­ter a gov­ern­ment worker was killed af­ter a bomb was planted on his ve­hi­cle. Yes­ter­day, Al-Shabaab mil­i­tants killed at least 15 peo­ple af­ter a car bomb in­tended for the newly ap­pointed mil­i­tary chief hit a minibus car­ry­ing civil­ians.

The So­mali Pres­i­dent de­clared the coun­try in a state of war last week and vowed to bring the fight to Al-Shabaab mil­i­tants. Don­ning mil­i­tary fa­tigues, he of­fered the mil­i­tant in­sur­gency group an ul­ti­ma­tum; dis­arm and sur­ren­der to the po­lice within 60 days and they will re­ceive full amnesty, or “face the con­se­quences.”