Somali. FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
A suicide bomber on Monday rammed a vehicle loaded with
explosives into a vehicle carrying a European Union military convoy,
injuring two civilians, police said.
Al-Shabaab
Islamists claimed responsibility for the attack against "European Union
Christians", which targeted vehicles carrying Italian soldiers, in a
statement on a pro-Shabaab website.
"The attacked
convoy was coming from the Ministry of Defence when targeted along the
industrial road and ... two civilians were wounded. The military truck
in the convoy that was struck was badly damaged," police officer Ahmed
Ibrahim told AFP.
Slightly damaged
The
Italian army said in a statement that five Italian vehicles were in the
convoy, and a vehicle with four soldiers onboard was "slightly damaged
and able to return to the base".
"No Italian soldiers were injured in the event", which took place some 700m from the Defence ministry.
The European Training Mission in Somalia (EUTM) was launched in
2010 to strengthen the country's transitional government by offering
military advice and training.
Regular bombings
Somalia
collapsed into civil war in 1991 that destroyed state institutions and
has been wracked by an Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist insurgency since 2006.
The
Shabaab carry out regular bombings and armed assaults on government,
military and civilian targets in the capital in their fight to overthrow
the internationally backed government in Mogadishu.
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