An eyewitness at the beach in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, has been telling the BBC Somali service how the attack began earlier this evening.

Ali Bashir Abdullahi Abdi, who is the director of the private radio station Mustakball, says he was socialising with colleagues after work on the beach.

He has slightly different version of events from what we understood earlier.

Gunmen on the beachside began shooting first, he says.

People then began running towards the beach’s gates, which is on the other side of the restaurants – and as they headed towards the exit the first car bomb exploded.

He managed to escape by climbing over a restaurant’s wall and headed to the main road.

Mr Abdi said he saw that three people had been wounded and suspects others were killed.

The BBC’s Ibrahim Aden in Mogadishu says the shooting at the beach is ongoing.