In an explosion outside of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, at least six persons were killed.
According to the Somali News Agency, the explosion took place in the Lower Shabelle area on Wednesday.
The regional governor reported that 12 more individuals, including children, were hurt.
The bus was headed from the coastal city of Marka to the region’s farther southmost district, Qoryooley.
The perpetrators of the incident have not yet been publicly identified by any group.
Governor Mohamed Ibrahim claimed that a terrorist organisation was responsible for the explosion, although he withheld the organization’s identity.
Al-Shabab, commonly known as “The Youth,” has previously claimed responsibility for strikes of this nature.
Using suicide bombers, the organisation detonated a military installation in May that housed Ugandan personnel participating in an African Union peacekeeping mission.
Al-Shabab was also responsible for the 2013 Westgate mall siege in Nairobi, which lasted four days and resulted in 67 fatalities and 150 injuries.
The group has been engaged in combat since 2006 in an effort to overthrow Somalia’s national government and replace it with one based on a strict application of Islamic Sharia law.
The gang originally controlled substantial portions of Somalia, but government counteroffensives backed by friends like the US, Turkey, and the African Union have been pushing them back more and more.
In May 2022, with the election of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the Somali government declared war on the rebel group.
In a planned operation on the Hiran region earlier this week, Somali government forces killed 25 al-Shabab extremists.