Al-Jazeera correspondent said that ten civilians were killed today and 11 others were injured when an explosive device exploded in Hawabdi area, south of the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
The reporter quoted witnesses as saying that the device exploded when a minibus carrying more than twenty passengers passed by, indicating that the death toll was expected to rise in the presence of critical cases among the wounded.
Anadolu news agency reported a police officer, Ismail Mohamed, in which he said that the explosion caused by a landmine planted by the side of the road, hit a public transport bus heading to the city of Wenluen in the Lower Shabelle region, in the south of the country.
The Somali Ministry of Information stated that the victims of the explosion were going to a funeral.
No one has claimed responsibility for the blast so far, but the accusation fingers point to the Mujahideen al-Shabaab fighters targeting the Somali military vehicles of the African Union as it passes the road linking the capital and the Lower Shabelle region.
The Somali authorities have been fighting a war for years against the Al-Shabaab movement, which was founded in early 2004, and is an armed movement that is intellectually affiliated with Al-Qaeda. It has adopted many operations that claimed hundreds of lives.