Most of the victims were said to be teenagers from nearby IDP camps who came to the place for entertainment. The injured people were taken to Banadir hospital in Mogadishu.

The attacker hurled two hand grenades into a packed video showroom were teenagers were watching films, according eyewitnesses who talked to Sunatimes.

Pro-Islamist radio has reportedly claimed that Al-Shabaab was behind the attack and claimed to have killed government soldiers.