Latest military report from Somalia show that an Al-Shabaab would-be bomber was the only person killed in own rickshaw-borne IED explosion in northern Mogadishu on Monday afternoon.
Information received indicate that the terror operative was possibly to target a nearby security checkpoint manned by Somali government forces when the IED exploded prematurely and killing him.
The Al-Qaeda linked terror militants in Somalia prefer the use of IEDs as the weapon of choice to target the security forces and government officials. In a number of such attacks the ordinary Somali civilians are killed while in some cases the militants themselves are blown up in these premature IED explosions.
