{{At least three women have been killed and seven others wounded in the Somali capital after a remotely detonated bomb exploded in a busy market, police and witnesses say.}}<\/p>\n
It was not immediately clear who was behind Sunday’s bombing.<\/p>\n
In recent weeks, al-Shabaab fighters have increased gun and bomb attacks in Mogadishu, with the latest incident on July 5, when its fighters attacked the presidential palace.<\/p>\n
The women killed in the blast were city workers, who were cleaning the streets when a bomb hidden in a rubbish pit exploded in the busy market sector known as Hodan district of Mogadishu, police said.<\/p>\n
“We heard a big blast, and then I could see the old mothers who were cleaning the scene lying, some of them dead and others screaming,” Nuria Ahmed, a mother of four who lives near the scene, told Reporters news agency.<\/p>\n
“The bomb was wrapped in a big, black plastic bag and then placed inside the rubbish along the Taleh street<\/p>\n
“I counted three dead and seven others injured. I was the first person who arrived for help. It is very unfortunate if mothers are the target.”<\/p>\n
Witnesses saw the three dead female city cleaners and the other seven injured at the scene and at Madina hospital.<\/p>\n
“A remotely controlled roadside bomb killed three female city cleaners and injured seven others in Hodan district. The militants hid the bomb inside a rubbish pit,” Major Ali Afrah, a police officer, told Reporters.<\/p>\n
African Union forces along with the Somali army launched a new offensive this year against al-Shabab, which has been accused by US intelligence of being linked to al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n
Several towns have been taken back from the group, but officials say al-Shabab still controls large sections of the countryside and some settlements, from where they have been able to continue their guerrilla-style campaign.<\/p>\n
The group has also staged attacks outside Somalia, including one at a Kenyan shopping mall in September that killed at least 67 people.<\/p>\n
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