Mogadishu, May 22, 2019, SPA -- At least 12 people were killed when a suicide car bomber detonated explosives at a security checkpoint in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, police said Wednesday. "It was a huge blast at a security checkpoint in Boondhere district. So far we have the deaths of 12 people, among them six security [service] members and a senior female military official," police officer Ahmed Bashane told dpa. There were also civilians among the dead, according to Bashane. He said two members of parliament were injured. --SPA 13:27 LOCAL TIME 10:27 GMT 0008 www.spa.gov.sa/w1106633