Press Tv: Somali blast kills soldiers, civilians

At least 7 people have been killed and several others injured in an explosion in the southwestern town of Baidoa, witnesses told Press TV.

The cause of the massive explosion is not yet clear.

Three Somali soldiers are among the victims who fell prey to the blast, which occurred after a military convoy of foreign troops entered the region on Wednesday, a Press TV correspondent reported.

No foreign soldiers were injured in the blast.

The blast came as the Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed is in the city to stand before the parliament and explain the country's political turmoil.

Somalia has been without an effective central government since warlords toppled Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.The ongoing violence in Somalia has resulted in the death and displacement of countless civilians.

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