Six killed in blast at Mogadishu army checkpoint: official

At least six people, mostly soldiers, were killed when a bomb exploded at an army checkpoint in Mogadishu, the second blast today in the troubled Somali capital.
"Six people, most of them soldiers, were killed (by the bomb) which was planted under a tree close to a security checkpoint. Several others are also wounded", said Mogadishu administration spokesman Abdifatah Omar Halane.