The attempt was committed on Saturday to the head of the Somali Defense Forces of the Brigade General Odova Yusuf, he remained alive. This was told by the Somali news portal Garowe.
According to him, the general was in the Army Column, which came out in the morning from the capital of Mogadishu to the south in the country to assist attacked Islamists from the Ash-Shabab group of military bases in the city of Barir and Avdigla.
Next to the car in which the general was located, was blown up Mina. The head of defense forces remained alive. Meanwhile, Dalsan radio station transfers that among personnel there are losses.
Recall that this is not the first attempt on O.Yusuf. On July 13, last year in Mogadishu near the buildings of the Ministry of Defense, the driver of the car stuffed with explosives tried to approach the Coruto, where the general was located. As a result of intensive fire protection service, the terrorist machine was undermined, Yusuf himself was not injured.