(SomaliNet) At least six civilians of same family have been killed and four others were wounded in deadly explosion that occurred in Afgoie town, 30km south of the Somalia capital Mogadishu on Friday. Witnesses told Somalinet that the explosion was caused by a landmine left at a house located in Afgoie where all the six people including four children died and four others got serious injuries. Abdirisak Dini Isak, the army commander of Afgoie town told the local media that the blast came when a young child threw a bomb left in the house into fire that went off destroying completely the house. “It was not a terrorist attack but it was just accidental,” Dini said Afgoie is an agricultural town of the lower Shabelle region.
| "Just some kids playing around. They usually put the landmine in the mailbox," he added. |