So­mali Is­lamist group al-Shabaab claimed re­spon­si­bil­ity for a car bomb­ing in the cap­i­tal, Mo­gadishu, that tar­geted a con­voy of ve­hi­cles car­ry­ing for­eign diplo­mats and left 10 peo­ple dead.

A ve­hi­cle laden with ex­plo­sives hit the es­corts of United Arab Emi­rates diplo­mats, killing six civil­ian by­standers, two sol­diers and the two bombers, po­lice of­fi­cer Su­ley­man Dirshe said Wednes­day by phone. None of the U.A.E. vis­i­tors were harmed, he said.

Al-Shabaab, which has waged an in­sur­gency in the Horn of Africa na­tion since 2006 in a bid to im­pose a strict form of Is­lamic law, said it con­ducted the as­sault, al-Jazeera re­ported, cit­ing a state­ment from the mil­i­tants.

While the al-Qaeda-linked group has lost ground since be­ing dri­ven out of Mo­gadishu in 2011 by gov­ern­ment and African Union forces, it con­tin­ues to stage deadly gun and bomb at­tacks. The at­tack came about two days af­ter al-Shabaab vowed to con­duct more vi­o­lence dur­ing the Is­lamic holy month of Ra­madan.