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A bomb explosion on Saturday killed three people and wounded eight others in Mogadishu, the Somali capital.
Local reports say security officials were chasing a vehicle after identifying it as threat when it exploded right next to a security checkpoint.
The police opened fire on the vehicle, forcing many people to flee the area and limiting the number of casualties the blast could have caused.
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No group has claimed responsibility for this attack.
Mogadishu is regularly targeted in attacks by the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab group. Saturday’s incident is the second major explosion in the Somali capital in recent weeks.
On January 31, five people, including four Al-Shabaab fighters, were killed in a siege on Afrik Hotel in the city. Eight other civilians were left injured in the incident which lasted over eight hours.
Earlier in January, two Turks were killed in a suicide bombing incident that also left three others dead.
The insurgent group, which was driven out of Mogadishu in 2011, seeks to turn Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic state. It previously claimed responsibility for other attacks in Mogadishu, including a truck bombing in December which killed 85.
