Nine dead as bomb hits minibus in Somalia

Bloomberg

Nine passengers died and eight were wounded when a bomb hit a mini-bus on the outskirts of Somali capital Mogadishu this morning, police said.
The victims were travelling from the town of Afgoye to Mogadishu when a roadside bomb exploded, Yahye Ahmed, a police officer, said by phone. No one has claimed responsibility for the blast, though the police blamed al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda-linked group.
The insurgents have been carrying out sporadic attacks in the Horn-of-Africa nation that has endured two decades of civil war.