Deadly blast hits Somali theatre Somalis move a man wounded in a blast at the Somali National Theater in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, Apr...

Deadly blast hits Somali theatre

Somalis move a man wounded in a blast at the Somali National Theater in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, April 4, 2012. A suicide blast during a ceremony at Somalia's newly reopened national theater on Wednesday killed at least 10 people, including two of the country's top sports officials, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)

Medical personnel help a man wounded in a blast at the Somali National Theater in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, April 4, 2012. An explosion Wednesday at a ceremony at Somalia's national theater killed at least 10 people including two top sports officials in an attack by an Islamist group on a site that symbolized the city's attempt to rise from two decades of war. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Soldiers carry the body of the chairman of Somali football federation Said Mugabe after an explosion at the national theatre in Mogadishu April 4, 2012. REUTERS/Omar Faruk

Policemen and residents secure the national theatre after an explosion in Mogadishu, April 4, 2012. Al Shabaab rebels in Somalia claimed responsibility for the explosion that killed at least six people and wounded some government officials. REUTERS/Omar Faruk (SOMALIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST)

Somali Olympic Committee President Aden Yabarow Wiish lies fatally wounded on the ground after a bomb exploded during a ceremony at the Somali National Theater in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday, April 4, 2012. AP

Ambulances stand outside the Somali National Theater in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, April 4, 2012. An explosion Wednesday at a ceremony at Somalia's national theater killed at least 10 people including two top sports officials in an attack by an Islamist group on a site that symbolized the city's attempt to rise from two decades of war. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

A bomb blast inside a crowded theater in Somalia's capital claimed the lives of at least three people but did not kill the country's prime minister and other top government officials who were present, media and African military reports said Apr. 4.