Two peo­ple were killed in a drive-by shoot­ing Sat­ur­day in So­mali cap­i­tal Mo­gadishu, eye­wit­nesses have said.

“Two gun­men opened fire on a car in west­ern Mo­gadishu, killing two peo­ple,” an eye­wit­ness told Anadolu Agency.

Ac­cord­ing to wit­nesses, the dri­ver was in­jured in the at­tack, for which no group has yet claimed re­spon­si­bil­ity.

So­ma­lia has re­mained in tur­moil since the ouster of Pres­i­dent Siad Barre in 1991.

The al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab group has been wag­ing a years-long in­sur­gency against the Mo­gadishu gov­ern­ment.

The mil­i­tant group, how­ever, has re­cently suf­fered a string of blows, in­clud­ing the loss of most of its strong­holds in south­ern and cen­tral So­ma­lia to gov­ern­ment and African Union forces.

Nev­er­the­less, the group has con­tin­ued to carry out deadly at­tacks on gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials and se­cu­rity per­son­nel