A car bomb attack targeting a group of Turkish contractors has left nearly a dozen people injured in the town of Afgoye, 30 kilometers outside the Somali capital Mogadishu.

"A speeding suicide car bomb rammed into a place where the Turkish engineers and Somali police were having lunch," a spokesperson for Somali police told the Reuters news agency. 

The Turkish Embassy in Somalia revealed that 11 people were injured in the attack and three of them were Turkish citizens, Hurriyet reports.

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