Summary
A suicide car bomber from Somalia's Islamist group al-Shabab hit a military convoy outside Mogadishu Tuesday, causing an unknown number of deaths, a police officer and the group's spokesman told Reuters.
"One of our mujahideen [was] martyred after he rammed his car into a Somali military convoy," Abu Musab said.
One military pick-up truck was destroyed while 12 soldiers were killed by the blast, he said and added that a second vehicle in the convoy was also damaged.
The soldiers in the convoy were U.S.-trained Somali military commandoes.
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