Mogadishu, 30 October 2022 (dpa/MIA) - The death toll after two suicide bombings in the Somali capital Mogadishu has risen to 100 people, with 300 wounded, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said according to a local broadcaster. The Shabelle Media Network said Hassan had visited the scene of the attack in front of the Education Ministry building in the capital. Police officer Mohamed Dahir told dpa earlier that most of the victims were civilians and that four militants had been involved in the attack. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the bombings on their radio station Andalus. Somali Prime Minister Hamse Abdi Barre expressed his condolences and condemned the mass killing. "My thoughts are with the families of all who died & with those who were injured in today’s barbaric attacks," he wrote on Twitter. "My government remains committed to fighting & eliminating the terrorist group al-Shabaab from our country." The Education Ministry lies in the heart of the city, close to a busy intersection where a truck bombing killed 500 people in 2017. The bombings come as the government holds talks about intensifying the war against terrorism in the country. Al-Shabaab, a terrorist group with ties to Al-Qaeda, controls large swathes of the central and southern Horn of Africa and frequently carries out attacks on civilians, government officials, businesspeople and journalists.