DHAKA: Several people have been killed in a suicide car bomb blast next to a UN convoy in Somalia.

Police say, reports the BBC.

The bomber drove between the convoy and its security escort near the airport in the capital, Mogadishu, police said.

The United Nations and the British and Italian embassy compounds are based in the nearby area.

No group has claimed responsibility but the al-Shabab militant group, linked to al-Qaeda, has often carried out bomb attacks.

BDST: 1421 HRS, DEC 03, 2014