(Sh. M. Network)-A roadside Bomb tore through a convoy carrying Somali government soldiers in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia on Saturday, killing a civilian and seriously wounding several others, including troops, Witnesses said.Residents in Mogadishu's Huriwa district who asked not to be named said they could see thick black smoke billowing from the scene of the kaboom, which the security source said was caused by a remote-controlled landmine.
"A Somali government truck was blown up... I do not know if any soldiers were maimed or killed in the attack," a Witness said, adding that a civilian person walking by Bomb site dead.
The aftermath of the kaboom, dozens of heavily armed security forces cordoned off the scene and began searches nearby streets, to hunt down the criminal masterminds, but no arrests over the attack were reported so far, according to locals.
No group has clamed responsibility for the blast.
Insurgents from the turban Islamist movement of Al shabab have increasingly adopted the tactics of Iraqi guerrillas since the interim Somali government and its African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
troops allies forced them out of the capital Mogadishu in August, last year after a brief war.