Mogadishu: A car bomb wounded at least four UN guards when it exploded near a United Nations compound in Somalia`s capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police said.
Al Qaeda-allied al Shabaab insurgents claimed responsibility for the attack.
"We can confirm that four guards working for the United Nations were injured," Major Nur Osman, a police officer at the scene, told Reuters.
The bomb was planted in a car parked in a garage outside facilities belonging to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Osman said.
"We are behind the blast that injured at least three UN guards this morning," al Shabaab`s spokesperson on military operations, Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, said.
The militants often carry out such attacks in the capital in their fight to topple the Western-backed government and impose an strict interpretation of Islam on Somali territory.
