**At least eight people have died in a day of violence in Somalia which saw mortars fired at MPs meeting for the first time since August.**Nobody was killed in the attack on parliament but witnesses say three civilians died as government forces hit back and a shell hit a radio station.
A separate roadside bomb killed at least five people, officials say.
Hard-line Islamist groups are battling Somalia’s UN-backed government, which only controls a few parts of Mogadishu.
The BBC’s Mohamed Olad Hassan says the mortar attack spread fear among MPs but they carried on debating.
He says the parliament is a thick, concrete building protected by hundreds of government troops - so the MPs were not in as much danger as people outside the compound.
Earlier this month, a suicide bomber killed three ministers at a ceremony for newly graduated doctors.
Rebels from the al-Shabab group have denied carrying out that attack but have been behind other suicide attacks on government targets.
They are accused of links to al-Qaeda.
Somalia has not had a functioning national government since 1991.