(SomaliNet) A pickup truck belonging to the transitional government carrying soldiers hit a roadside bomb at the entrance of Afgoie town, 30km south of the Somalia capital Mogadishu wounding six soldiers on Thursday. Local witnesses told Somalinet that “I saw a huge flame went into the sky after the explosion, when I approached the area, I found that a bomb exploded on a car. Six soldiers were laying on the ground bleeding, in fact they were seriously injured,” said Bashi Omar, a local farmer. “I ran away from there fearing that I might be arrested,”
In another event, four persons including one policeman were wounded in a grenade explosion that occurred in Sodonka Street in Mogadishu where militants attacked a government convoy.