Somalia's Al-Shabaab militant group has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack in the country's capital, which left at least 4 people dead and several others injured.
索马里首都发生一起自杀式炸弹袭击，至少4人死亡、多人受伤，青年党激进组织声称对此次袭击负责。
A Somalia's soldier patrols near the wreckage of cars after a suicide car bomb blast on January 4, 2015 in Mogadishu.
The attack happened Sunday when a suicide car bomber blew himself up near a moving convoy of Somalia's US-trained elite forces in Mogadishu.
"There was a huge suicide car bomb explosion, which targeted a convoy of Somali security forces passing near the fence of the airport. We do not know the casualties yet, but I was very much panicked by the magnitude of the blast."
The attack on the airport road in the capital killed mostly pedestrians walking along the road.
The explosion also destroyed four vehicles and structures in the street where the vehicles were.
The explosion could be seen as retaliatory attacks by Al-Shabaab after it lost some of its key leaders in U.S. airstrikes, including the immediate former leader Abdi Godane and recent intelligence head Abdishakur Tahlil.