One Killed in Somalia Bombing

An engineer working with a Turkish company was killed on Thursday in a bomb attack in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, police said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, although Al-Qaida-affiliated Shebab rebels have been blamed for a string of killings targeting politicians, returning diaspora and anyone linked to foreign companies or the internationally-backed government.

"He was a construction engineer and worked with Turkish companies. We don't know why he was targeted but investigations are going on," said police officer Abdilahi Mohamed.

"They attached an explosive device to his car and remotely detonated it," he added.

Last week a U.S.-Somali engineer who had come back to his birth nation to help rebuild the war-torn country was also shot dead in Mogadishu.