An improvised bomb exploded near a U.N. vehicle traveling near the northeastern Somali city of Garowe on Monday morning, killing six people — including four aid workers for the international children’s agency UNICEF.
Somalia’s President called it “an attack against the future of our country.”
The attack follows a separate incident Sunday in which three African Union troops died in an ambush in the Lower Shabelle region of Somalia.
The terrorist group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack, which occurred about 8 a.m. in the administrative capital of the autonomous Puntland region, according to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia.