Four Somalis killed by roadside bomb
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A government official and three other people were killed on Saturday by a roadside bomb triggered by remote control in the Somali capital, witnesses and police said. Ahmed Mohamud, district commissioner of the Mogadishu district of Hamar Jajab, was killed while driving in a part of the city controlled by the government and African Union peacekeepers.
"He died on the spot, two soldiers and a civilian woman also died there," police officer Abdi Hassan told Reuters. The rebel group al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack which also left several people wounded."Our bombs unit was responsible for the bomb that killed a senior official of the infidel government," al Shabaab said in a statement. (Reuters)
