(Sh. M. Network) -- A huge car boom blast hit on Saturday Afgoye town, just 30 Km north-west Mogadishu, Somalia capital that recently wrested from myrmidon control by Somali and AMISOM troops, witnesses and officials said.They can't defeat even poorly trained troops, but they sure can blow up cars.
Reports said a boom-mobile at an army base at Bar Ismail area where Witnesses said they heard a large kaboom and saw smoke billowing or catching the winds. Conflicting reports are still emerging from the kaboom. Some reports suggest that a number of people sustained injures.
Abdikadir Nur Sidi, the governor of Lower Shabelle region for Somali government confirmed Shabelle Media the blast, saying a jacket wallah has carried out the blast, blowing himself up at Bar Ismail intersection locating Somali soldiers.
"A car packed with explosives drove from Mogadishu today went off in Afgoye town, especially at a base controlled by security forces of TFG. The troops intercepted the car and started to fire at him when he attempted to drive into a base for intelligence officers," said the governor.
Somali and AU troops seized the town, 30 Km on the outskirts of Mogadishu from Al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
snuffies after three days of fighting last month nearly 400,000 internally displaced people IDPs live in locations between Mogadishu and Afgoye, some 30 kilometres (20 miles) north of Mogadishu, the Somali capital.