Bartamaha (Mogdisho):- At least one person was killed and nine others including four Somali government soldiers were wounded Monday after a roadside explosion hit a military vehicle of the Somali government in Mogadishu, witnesses and medical sources said.

The blast from a remotely controlled roadside bomb occurred as the government vehicle was moving in a street in the government- controlled district of Waberi in the capital Mogadishu.

“The bomb went off as the vehicle went along the street. I saw one dead young man, a civilian, and nine other people, four of them were soldiers, injured in the explosion,” Muse Guure, an eyewitness in the area told Xinhua.

Hospital sources and local media reports gave similar causality figures from the attack which was claimed by Islamist groups opposed to the Somali government.

Somali government security forces cordoned off the area and began searches in the area for attackers and government forces reportedly made some arrests for the attacks.

Islamist fighters wage near daily attacks on Somali government forces and African Union (AU) peacekeeping troops based in Mogadishu.

The AU forces this week warned of possible attacks by Islamist insurgent opposed to the peacekeepers presence in the war torn east African country.

The AU said that the rebels prepared ten vehicles to carry out suicide attacks against civilian targets in Mogadishu.

The Islamist rebel movement of Al Shabaab, which controls much of south and centre of Somalia last month carried out suicide attack on AU forces base in Mogadishu and pledged will continue targeting the peacekeepers and Somali government targets.

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Source:Xinhua

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