IN PICS: Car bombing hits EU convoy in Somalia; Two dead

A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle loaded with explosives into a vehicle carrying a European Union military convoy and injured two civilians, police said. Al-Shabaab Islamists claimed responsibility for the attack. / AFP PHOTO / Abdirazak Hussein FARAH

Abdikadir Abdirrahman, Director of Amin Ambulances, told Xinhua news agency that emergency crew transported four injured people and two bodies. / AFP PHOTO / Abdirazak Hussein FARAH

The blast occurred near the Somali Defence Ministry where a convoy of Italian troops was passing by. The police said no member of the Italian troops were killed or injured./ AFP PHOTO / Abdirazak Hussein FARAH

Witnesses reported seeing huge plume of smoke rising over the place. It was so huge. We learnt that foreign troops were targeted. Somali forces arrived at the scene and cordoned off the area, said one eyewitness. / AFP PHOTO / Abdirazak Hussein FARAH

Somalia police and other security officers investigate the scene of the suicide bomb attack/ AFP PHOTO / Abdirazak Hussein FARAH