19 people are killed by roadside bomb in Somalia

at Least 19 people reported killed by a roadside bomb in Somalia.

Police say they many people lost their lives when a minibus hit a bomb on a road between the country's capital, Mogadishu, and the south-western town of Afgoye.

the Minibus was destroyed by the powerful explosion, says captain abdirashid ali shermarke was Ahmed Halane, a police officer on the spot, to a local tv station.

Earlier on Sunday wrote to the news agency AFP that 10 people were killed and 12 wounded, but the death toll is according to the later information has increased dramatically.

Pictures from the tv show a vehicle, which almost blasted in two halves.

No group or other has taken the blame for the bomb. But the militant islamist group al-Shabaab dishes often attacks against government troop transports in exactly this way.

the Group uses landmines and remote controlled roadside bombs to hit the transports.

Mohamed Hasan, who owns the minibus, saying that it drove people from Mogadishu to the town of Wanlaweyn in the south Shabelle province.

Many of the passengers in the bus were women who supported themselves by trading with the vegetables.

It was a terrible episode this morning. The bomb went of, just as the bus crossed the area and destroyed it totally, " says Daud Doyow, a witness, according to AFP.

- There were more than 20 people in the minibus. 10 of them were confirmed dead, while the other is very badly injured and is taken to the hospital, said a second witness on Sunday morning.