(MOGADISHU, Somalia) — Gunmen set off a suicide car bombing then stormed a government building in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu on Saturday, killing at least five people including the country’s deputy labor minister, police said. It was the latest attack by Islamic extremists in the troubled Horn of Africa nation. After an hours-long gun battle, Somalia’s security forces took back control of the building Saturday afternoon from at least five attackers who forcibly entered the government building that houses the ministries of labor and public works, police Capt.

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