Somalia’s army chief escapes car bomb attack in Mogadishu

Somalia’s military commander-in-chief narrowly escaped a car bombing on Monday that killed at least one person and ten others wounded in Mogadishu’s Hodan district.

The commander general Odawa Yussuf Rageh was coming from the ministry of defense after a  car packed with explosives tried to breach the convoy.

Soldiers opened fire at the vehicle after the driver ignored several warnings by the security escort the car was shot and the car exploded as a result of killing a woman.