A suspected suicide bomber on Tuesday rammed a car laden with explosives into a busy restaurant in the center of capital Mogadishu, killing ten people at lease, World Bulletin quoted a police officer as saying.

"A policeman opened fire to stop the car bomb but it was all in vain. The policeman died and the car bomb rammed into the gate in the busy restaurant," Major Farah Hussein, a police officer at the scene of the attack, told.

"Drums of petrol are also burning, it is too early to give casualty figures," he added.