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'There were limbs everywhere'

News24: "Mogadishu - A roadside bomb killed three civilians and wounded five others on Saturday in an attack apparently meant for a passing convoy of Ethiopian troops in Somalia's war-battered capital, witnesses said.
'There were limbs and flesh everywhere,' said resident Abdulkadir Barre, who said he saw three bodies in the middle of the street.
Among the dead were two sisters who ran a shop near the site of the explosion, he said.
Another witness, Isse Osman, said he saw five others with serious injuries, one of them a student."

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