died and four others sustained injuries when their minibus was blown off by a landmine in Haano-wein, a place 3 km afar the town of Luq in Gedo region.
The Commissioner of Gedo region for the Somali transitional federal government, Mohamed Abdi Kalil who spoke to Bar-kulan said that most of the victims were women and children from Bakol region heading to the refugee camps in Kenya.
The injured are being treated in a hospital in Luq where government forces have recently taken control of.
This is the second landmine explosion in a series of landmine blasts in the last 48 hours in the outskirts of Luq. The first blast went off on a lorry carrying goods. The blast culminated in the death of two people
Government officials in the area accuseAl Shabab of being behind the explosions in the region. Al Shabab plants mines and explosives to prevent advancing government forces.

Garbaharey, Somalia (AHN) - Somali government forces allied with troops of the moderate Sufi group Ahlu Sunna Waljama (ASWJ) launched a surprise attack on an al Shabaab group in a southern Somalia village, killing at least 20 militants, an official said Wednesday.

Sheikh Mohammed Hussein, better known as al Qadi, the spokesman of Ahlu Sunna fighters in southern Somalia, said the ambush attack targeted an al Shabaab military base in the village of Tulo Barwaqo, about 20 kilometers from the town of Garbaharey, the provincial capital of Gedo region, which al Shabaab tightly controls.

"We have seized a lot of weapons, including assault rifles, pistols, explosive devices and as well