At least three people were killed on Friday in a roadside blast in the Garasbaley neighborhood on the outskirts of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, police officials and witnesses said.
An officer, who declined to be named, told Xinhua that a bomb planted at the roadside went off as a convoy carrying the commissioner of Garasbaley was passing by.
“The commissioner and two of his bodyguards died in the blast,’’ said the officer.
Witnesses said that they heard a heavy blast.
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“As we were going out of a mosque, we heard a huge blast.
“People said that the government officials have died in the blast,’’ Daud Heyle, a witness said.
No group has claimed the responsibility for the latest attack.
