Explosion in Somali Capital Misses Uganda Amisom peacekeeper soldiers

Mogadishu,-A Ugandan AMISOM soldiers survived a Terrorist bombing Tuesday that destroyed the street they were passing near the international airport in Mogadishu shortly after they stepped out, the eyewitnesses said. AMISOM officials blamed islamists of behind the explosion that slightly missed de-mining soldiers that shook several nearby apartments. AMISOM official said a bomb underground exploded minutes after the soldiers stepped out. Also Ugandan troops who are part of African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) were targeted by Terrorist , heavy explosion in Mogadishu's KM 4 road on Sunday eyewitnesses said. AMISOM troops general Francis Okello has denied whether their soldiers have sustained any causalities.An African Union (AU) peacekeeper from Uganda was killed week ago when a Terrorist roadside bomb struck his convoy in the capital Mogadishu, an AU officer ,"The AU forces convoy was coming from the airport when it was targeted by a roadside bomb," The AU, which currently has some 2,600 peacekeepers deployed in the lawless Horn of Africa nation, deplored the killing."The AU unequivocally condemns this cowardly and barbaric act perpetrated against an AMISOM peacekeeper deployed in Mogadishu to safeguard Somali lives," it said in a statement.Uganda was the first country to contribute troops and Burundi dispatched its own forces earlier this year, but the contingent falls far short of the 8,000 soldiers pledged by the continental body in 2006