MOGADISHU (AFP) - Somalia's Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents said Thursday that supporters of the extremist group had carried out a double suicide bombing that killed 14 in the capital Mogadishu.

"Action has been taken by sympathisers of the Shebab, who were angry with the situation in Somalia," militant spokesman Ali Mohamud Rage told AFP. But the group had not directly ordered the attacks, he added.