A roadside bomb killed two Somalis and two foreign aid workers working for the Dutch arm of Medecins Sans Frontieres near the southern Somali port of Kismayu on Monday, witnesses said.A Somali driver, a Kenyan doctor and a French logistics officer were killed instantly by the blast while a Somali journalist nearby died from shrapnel wounds, Abdi Adan Duale, a nurse with MSF-Holland in Kismayu, told Reuters.
A Reuters reporter saw three bodies in the vehicle.
"All foreign workers have left Kismayu," said Mariam Hussein Mohamed, another MSF nurse in the southern port.
She said a second Kenyan MSF official was wounded. "We washed the bodies and wrapped them with white linen sheets. The plane carrying the dead and the other foreign staff is just about to leave for Nairobi," she told Reuters by telephone.
MSF-Holland confirmed in a statement that some of its aid workers were involved in an automobile incident in Kismayu. It said it had reports of fatalities but no other information.
Kismayu police chief Ibrahim Khalif Shanfool said two men were arrested after the blast. "We have two male suspects in our custody who were arrested at the site of the blast. Investigations are under way," he said.