MOGADISHU, Jumada I 16, 1437, February 25, 2016, SPA -- The Somali group al Shabaab killed four people and injured eight others on Thursday in a mortar attack near the presidential palace in the capital Mogadishu, police and a spokesman for the group said, according to Reuters. The group had targeted the palace but the mortars went off some distance away, ending up about 300 metres from the nearby house of parliament. Major Mohamed Nur, a Somali police officer, confirmed the number of dead and injured. --SPA 15:48 LOCAL TIME 12:48 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w