Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist group bombed a busy junction and a nearby restaurant in the town of Baidoa, killing at least eight people, a police officer and the group said.
Somalia's Shebab insurgents on Saturday claimed responsibility for a bomb attack which ripped a hole in a passenger plane shortly after takeoff from the capital Mogadishu earlier this month.
A blast that punched a hole in the fuselage of a plane this week was caused by a bomb meant to kill everyone on board, Somalia's minister for transport and aviation said on Saturday.
A blast that ripped a hole in a commercial airliner shortly after take-off from Somalia's capital was probably caused by a bomb, the pilot who landed it safely claimed Wednesday.
Somalia's Shebab militants killed at least 19 people when five gunmen detonated a bomb before storming a popular seaside restaurant in the capital Mogadishu, police said Friday.
A suicide bomber attacked a popular restaurant in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, killing himself and at least three others, Somali police said.
