A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle loaded with explosives into the gates of the Criminal Investigation Department headquarters in Mogadishu, Somalia, reports Somalian police.
Twitter is alive with videos of smoke at the site. Gunfire can be heard in the background of the videos.
Terror group Al-Shabaab, which carried out two suicide bombings at a Mogadishu checkpoint last week, has claimed responsibility for the attack.
"Too early to tell how many are wounded," explained a police commander, Osaman Muhammed, to Reuters.
Fighting continues inside the CID.