10 killed in Mogadishu bomb blast

Mogadishu, April 9: At least 10 people, including Somali soldiers, were on Sunday killed in a suicide car bomb attack near the Ministry of Defence in Mogadishu, reportedly targeting the new army chief. Somalia’s state news agency SON reported that the suicide car bomb attack left at least 10 people dead and injured more others. A security official, wishing that he not be med, told Xinhua by phone that 15 people, including three government soldiers, were killed and five others wounded. “Students and other civilians on a minibus were mostly those died in the suicide car attack. The New Chief of Somali tiol Army, Gen. Mohamed Ahmed Jimale, survived from the attack,” he said. “No one can identify the number of casualties (as) bodies of (the) dead (were blown up) into pieces and blood covered the area of the suicide car bomb attack, vehicles were also destroyed and burned,” a jourlist at the scene told Xinhua by phone. (IANS)