Several people have been killed in a suicide car bomb attack on a UN convoy near Mogadishu airport in Somalia<br /><br /> A policeman and two bodyguards, all three Somali nationals, are said to be among the dead. <br /><br /> The airport, with a tight security cordon, is used as a base for UN operations in Somalia. The area is also home to the British and Italian embassies and has been a regular target for attacks..<br /><br /> There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the Somali Islamist group al Shabaab has often used car bombs in the past.<br /><br /> The al Qaeda-linked group, which wants to impose its strict interpretation of Islamic law on Somalia, has launched a string of bomb and gun attacks in Mogadishu and other centres.<br /><br /> The blast comes the day after al Shabaab killed 36 non-Muslim workers in neighbouring Kenya which has sent troops into Somalia, joining other African Union forces in battling the militants.
