Somalian and US soldiers reportedly bombed Saturday zones next to the region of Jilib, where three members of the rebel Islamic Al Shabab group were killed and a gunned vehicle was destroyed, in one more hit that Somalian conflict is escalating.
The first detonation happened in a control post in the highway leading to the airport, after the police intercept a vehicle with the load. The explosion hurt another three soldiers and one of the attackers died.
The second explosion was one hour later in another army checkpoint in the Hodan district in the west of the capital few minutes after the Fridays prayers, a police officer was quoted as saying.
On the first explosion, Somalian Interior Security spokesman, Abdiaziz Ali Ibrahim, said local forces frustrated the attack, but the vehicle loaded with explosive went off.
