Mogadishu, November 16: A bomb explosion in Somalia’s North Galkacyo town has left at least three people dead and eight more wounded, causing unrest in a relatively calm neighborhood.
Police said a remote controlled landmine had caused the explosion late on Sunday in the capital city of Mudug province in north-central Somalia, but declined to give further information.
The death toll is expected to rise as some of those injured are reported to be in critical condition.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the blast.
During the past weeks, the relatively calm Mudug province and its neighboring Puntland region have become the scene of fatal attacks and bombings.
The fresh wave of insecurity has drawn the public’s ire in both regions. In Puntland hundreds of angry citizens have staged protests, demanding a return to stability.
Puntland, home to one-third of Somalia’s population, was declared a semi-autonomous region in 1998.
Unlike Somalia, it has a history of being a relatively calm province, but it is said that the ever-dangerous Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden have links with the region.
—–Agencies