A bomb exploded on Wednesday morning at a busy junction near buildings which house government offices in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
At least 11 people, including three women, were wounded in the explosion, Reuters reports quoting the head of the Aamin ambulance services in Mogadishu.
The explosion reportedly occurred as vehicles lined up for a search at a security checkpoint. Ambulances rushed to the scene of the explosion to take the injured to the hospital.
A video posted by AFP showed plumes of thick black smoke over the city following the blast.
This is the second explosion to rock Mogadishu in recent days. On December 28, a bomb blast killed at least 90 people and injured more than 100 others in the city at the Ex-Control checkpoint.
That bombing was the deadliest the country had experienced in more than two years with nearly three decades of Islamist violence and clan warfare ravaging the country.
Al-Shabaab, which claimed responsibility for the attack, has carried out bombings to try to sabotage the central government which has the support of the United Nations and African Union.
