Bomb blast on UN bus kills at least nine in Somalia

Somali soldiers check the wreckage of a car destroyed by a bomb outside the presidential palace in Mogadishu in 2014. Photo: AFP

Mogadishu, Somalia: Two Kenyans and seven Somali guards were killed in a bomb attack on a vehicle carrying workers to the United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland on Monday, police said.

Authorities suspect Islamist al Shabaab militants of carrying out the bombing in the northeastern city, Mohamed Abdi, a police officer at the scene said.