“A heavy explosion, presumably a roadside bomb, went off at the football pitch as the match was about to start… Three spectators were killed and seven others injured,” police spokesperson Abdi Mohamed said.
Witnesses said the blast occurred as spectators were arriving at a pitch in the southern Hararyale neighbourhood. One person was killed on the spot, while ambulance driver Mohamed Moalim said two died in hospital.
Abduhafid Bashir, a witness, said: “The explosion went off at a corner of the pitch before the game started. I saw the dead body of a young man.”
No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but Islamist Shabaab insurgents have carried out grenade and suicide attacks since abandoning bases in Mogadishu in August.
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