Roadside bomb kills seven outside Somali capital Mogadishu
A roadside bomb killed at least seven people yesterday - mostly women farmers - in an area outside the Somali capital dominated by Islamist insurgents who have defied public protests to end years of violence, residents and the army said.
A truck bombing in Mogadishu last weekend killed at least 358 people, with 56 people still missing. Almost all of the dead were civilians and the attack triggered angry demonstrations in the capital.
Yesterday's bombing hit a minibus in Daniga village about 40 km (25 miles) to the northwest of Mogadishu.
"We heard a huge crash today and we went to the scene, we saw a ruined minibus and at least seven dead bodies, mostly women. We could not identify some people, they were just pieces of human flesh," farmer Nur Abdullahi told Reuters by phone.
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