Suicide bomber kills more than 90 people including foreigners in attack on checkpoint in Somali capital city Mogadishu

An explosion at a busy checkpoint in Somalia's capital Mogadishu today killed at least 90 people and wounded dozens, according to an international agency working inside the country.  

Rescuers carried dead bodies past the twisted wreckage of a vehicle and minibus taxis smeared with blood.

'The number of casualties we have confirmed is 76 dead and 70 wounded, it could still be higher,' the director of the private Aamin Ambulance services, Abdukadir Abdirahman Haji said.

The blast took place at the Ex-Control checkpoint, a tax collection centre in Mogadishu, and comes amid persistent insecurity in the Horn of Africa nation.  

Paramedics and civilians assist a man injured in a car bomb explosion at a security checkpoint as he arrives to a hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia

Rescuers carry the dead body of a civilian killed, from the scene of a car bomb explosion at a checkpoint in Mogadishu today 

Medical personnel carry a civilian who was wounded in suicide car bomb attack at check point in Mogadishu

Men assist a man injured in a car bomb explosion at a checkpoint in Mogadishu earlier today