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| A suicide car bomber has killed 12 people in an attack aimed at African Union (AU) troops in Somalia, an official has said. | A suicide car bomber has killed 12 people in an attack aimed at African Union (AU) troops in Somalia, an official has said. |
| A car laden with explosives was rammed into an AU convoy travelling south-west of the capital, Mogadishu, said local governor Adukadir Mohamed Sidi. | A car laden with explosives was rammed into an AU convoy travelling south-west of the capital, Mogadishu, said local governor Adukadir Mohamed Sidi. |
| This is the first attack since militant Islamist group al-Shabab vowed to avenge the killing of its leader Ahmed Abdi Godane last week. | This is the first attack since militant Islamist group al-Shabab vowed to avenge the killing of its leader Ahmed Abdi Godane last week. |
| He was killed in a US air strike. | He was killed in a US air strike. |
| Monday's attack took place on the road between Mogadishu and Afgoye town, some 30km (19 miles) from the capital. | |
| "The car packed with explosives hit one of the armoured trucks," Mr Sidi told the Agence France-Presse news agency. | |
| "Twelve civilians in a minibus were killed, and 27 others were wounded," he said. | |
| The BBC's Mohamed Moalimu in Mogadishu says the injured include AU soldiers. | |
| Mr Sidi told him the wounded were being rushed to hospital in Mogadishu. | |
| Witnesses reported a huge blast and wave of fire, with civilians on the busy highway between the town and the capital caught up in the explosion, AFP reports . | |
| "I saw two minibuses with pools of blood. Many civilians were killed. The explosion was enormous," it quoted a witness, Ali Muhidin, as saying. | |
| The AU has some 22,000 troops battling militants in Somalia. |