SOMALIA: Mogadishu: 11 killed week after deadliest blast

Little more than one week after a massacre in Somalia killed more than 350 people in the capital, an attack near Mogadishu on Sunday has claimed the lives of at least 11 people, witnesses have said. Several women were among those killed in Sunday’s roadside explosion that hit a minibus carrying passengers some 36km southeast […]

Little more than one week after a massacre in Somalia killed more than 350 people in the capital, an attack near Mogadishu on Sunday has claimed the lives of at least 11 people, witnesses have said.

Several women were among those killed in Sunday’s roadside explosion that hit a minibus carrying passengers some 36km southeast of the coastal city. The victims are said to be farmers.

Mohamed Hasan, who saw the blast, said he believed civilians were killed in error.

He saw a Somali military vehicle pass the scene of the explosion.

“I saw charred bodies of bodies shortly after the blast. I think the target of the attack was the military soldiers,” he said.