The first blast went
kaboom!at a small Khat market in Mogadishu's Towfiq neighborhood where Somali government soldiers were buying the popular narcotic leaves (Khat) and no death or wounds were reported so far.
In the second kaboom, AMISOM convoy passing through Arafat area, a neighborhood in the Yaqshiid district was targeted with a road side bomb. No fatalities reported.
Muhaydin Hassan Jurus, the district commissioner of Yaqshid for Somali government confirmed to Shabelle Media the incidents, but declined to comment to casualties.
Al shabab, which linked with Al Qaeda grabbed credit for the multiple blasts, saying they have killed an unconfirmed number of soldiers from Somali and AMISIOM.
Al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
who announced their departure from Mogadishu last August, regularly wage attacks on AMISOM and TFG forces in the capital. Although security in Mogadishu has been significantly increased,