A huge explosion was reported in the outskirts of Mogadishu hours after Harakat Shabaab Mujahideen better known as Al-Shabaab vow to attack.
Military intelligence reports and cited by open sources indicate that the blast hit close to an atmy checkpoint.
Al-Shabaab which usually target SNA and allied forces in car bombs, have been threatening to attacks against new president Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo’s government.
A car fiited with explosives blown up near an army checkpoint outside Mogadishu, wounding at least four soldiers, according to a Somali security officer on Monday evening.
Soldiers manning the checkpoint reportedly chased the driver before he detonated the explosives. The car suicide bomber died on the spot. The four security officers were taken to a Mogadishu for treatment.
VOW MORE ATTACKS
After President Farmajo was inaugurated last week, Wednesday, the Al-Qaeda branch in Somalia denounced his election calling him an apostate.
The Islamist militant vowed more attacks and on Sunday, a car bomb in the capital Mogadishu killed at least 39 Somali people.
Somalia has also another challenge from fighters affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS).
