UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the deadly attacks on a police station in Somalia, saying that these terrorist acts "have caused tremendous suffering". "The secretary-general strongly condemns the deadly attacks today against a police station in Beledweyne, Somalia, which follow a number of similar attacks on the Somali people in recent weeks," according to a statement issued by Ban's spokesman. "These acts of terrorism against the government and people of Somalia have caused tremendous suffering," said the statement. A suicide car bomb hit the gate of the police station in the central Somali town of Beledweyne, the provincial capital of central Somalia region of Hiran, a commercial hub that connect southern and northern Somalia.