Eight people were killed and over 17 injured according to the latest toll from a car bomb explosion that took place this morning near a school in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. A security official said this, stating that there are students among the victims.
The school building was badly damaged by the blast, as was the entire surrounding area.
Claiming the attack, the al Shabaab jihadist group specified that its target was "military trainers".
Witnesses reported that a large convoy carrying soldiers from Amisom - the African Union mission committed to fighting Islamists in Somalia - passed through the area when the bomb went off.
This attack comes after the one carried out by a suicide bomber last Saturday in which the journalist Abdiaziz Mohamud Guled, director of Radio Mogadishu, was killed and a colleague of his from Somali television was seriously injured.
Al-Shabaab also claimed another two attacks which occurred in September and which resulted in a total of 17 victims.
(Unioneonline / vl)
