At Least Nine UN Workers Die In Bomb Attack.

Two Kenyans and seven Somali guards have been killed in a bomb attack on a vehicle carrying workers to the United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland, police said. 

 A police officer, Mohamed Abdi, said that  authorities suspect Islamist al Shabaab militants of carrying out the bombing in the northeastern city.“A blast hit the bus carrying workers to the UN Office, at least nine people died,” he told Reuters. Six bystanders were wounded, he added. 

Nicholas Kay, the UN Special Representative for Somalia, condemned the attack , saying on social media that he was “shocked and appalled by loss of life”.Al Shabaab has staged several attacks against UN officials in Somalia in recent years, most often in the capital Mogadishu, where the UN has been helping a Western-backed government rebuild the country after more than 20 years of war.

culled from channels .