The blast targeted a tax collection center during the morning rush hour in Mogadishu as Somalia returned to work after its weekend. Police have described the explosion as 'devastating'. Dozens of wounded people were rushed to hospitals, including children. Among them were several university students who had been traveling in a bus, police said. Photos from the scene showed the mangled frames of vehicles. A large black plume of smoke rose above the capital. 💥

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT! Hong Kong riot police arrested at least 15 people in clashes Saturday with dozens of pro-democracy protestors who targeted a mall near the border with China to demonstrate against mainland tourists and shoppers. The fresh unrest ended a brief calm after protestors had battled riot police in shopping malls and streets of commercial districts across the city for three days over the Christmas period. About 100 protesters marched through the mall shouting, 'Liberate Hong Kong!' and 'Return to the mainland!' On Saturday afternoon, masked plain-clothed officers wielding batons arrested 14 people, including a 14-year-old girl, who were protesting inside the mall in Sheung Shui district, forcing shops to shut and harassing shoppers, a reporter at the scene said. Riot police charged into the mall to reinforce the officers and used pepper spray to disperse a crowd of residents who gathered to protest against the arrests. #HK

The pilot and four passengers were killed when a twin-engine plane with six people on board crashed in Louisiana on Saturday morning en route to the Peach Bowl in Georgia to watch LSU play Oklahoma. New Orleans television station WDSU said one of its sports reporters, Carley McCord, 30, died in the crash. The Lafayette Fire Department identified the other victims as pilot Ian Biggs, 59; Robert Vaughn Crisp II, 59; Gretchen D. Vincent, 51; and Michael Walker Vincent, 15. One passenger survived and was in critical condition. That passenger was identified as Stephen Berzas, 37. Three other persons, including two U.S. postal employees, who were on the ground at the time of the crash, suffered injuries, Lafayette Fire Department spokesman Alton Trahan said. 🛩🔥