At least five people were killed and ten injured in an attack on Somalia's higher education ministry in the capital Mogadishu, police have said.
Officers said there were two blasts at the entrance to a complex of government buildings.
They said it then opened the way for gunmen to enter the site where they are thought to have taken hostage some of the ministry's employees.
"First two blasts occurred, a bike blast and a car blast, outside the building, then armed fighters stormed in," Major Ali Nur, a police officer, told Reuters.
Smoke could be seen rising over the compound and gunfire was heard from inside.
The building houses the Higher Education Ministry and the Petroleum and Minerals Ministry.
Police Colonel Hussein Ibrahim said at least five people had been killed, including an African Union and a government soldier. The other three were civilians.
But initial estimates of the number killed varied, with some saying as many as eight dead.
About half an hour after the blast happened, police said the complex had been brought under control.
A spokesman for the armed Islamist group al Shabaab said it was responsible.
It is the latest in a series of raids in Mogadishu by the group which wants to topple the government and impose its own strict version of Islamic law.
It also comes days after an attack by militants on a Kenya university campus massacre in which 148 people were killed.
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