DHAKA: A suicide car bomber has killed 12 people in an attack aimed at African Union (AU) troops in Somalia.

An official has said, reports the BBC.

A car laden with explosives was rammed into an AU convoy travelling south-west of the capital, Mogadishu, said local governor Adukadir Mohamed Sidi.

This is the first attack since militant Islamist group al-Shabab vowed to avenge the killing of its leader Ahmed Abdi Godane last week.

He was killed in a US air strike.

‘The car packed with explosives hit one of the armoured trucks,’ Sidi told media on Monday.

‘Twelve civilians in a minibus were killed, and 27 others were wounded,’ he said.

The BBC in Mogadishu says the injured include AU soldiers.

Sidi told him the wounded were being rushed to hospital in Mogadishu.

BDST: 1936 HRS, SEP 08, 2014