CRI听力:Somalia Bomb Attack Kills Four

Somalia's Al-Shabaab militant group has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack in the country's capital, which left at least 4 people dead and several others injured.

The attack happened Sunday when a suicide car bomber blew himself up near a moving convoy of Somalia's US-trained elite forces in Mogadishu.

"There was a huge suicide car bomb explosion, which targeted a convoy of Somali security forces passing near the fence of the airport. We do not know the casualties yet, but I was very much panicked by the magnitude of the blast."

The attack on the airport road in the capital killed mostly pedestrians walking along the road.

The explosion also destroyed four vehicles and structures in the street where the vehicles were.

The explosion could be seen as retaliatory attacks by Al-Shabaab after it lost some of its key leaders in U.S. airstrikes, including the immediate former leader Abdi Godane and recent intelligence head Abdishakur Tahlil.