Mogadishu (Sunatimes) Somalia’s National Security Agency has on Friday displayed a donkey cart laden with explosives which was intercepted by the government troops in Mogadishu.

The agency said al-Shabaab militia group wanted to use the donkey cart for attacks. It said government troops foiled that attack after intercepting the explosives at EX control Afgoye, on the outskirt of the capital, Mogadishu.

SNSA spokesman Ibrahim Omar Adan said the militia wanted to detonate the explosives hidden in the donkey-driven-cart in government troop’s bases in the area.

He said they will double their efforts in preventing the militia in currying deadly attacks on the public. He also promised that the government will wipe out the militia out of the county.

He called on the public to closely work with government security apparatus in deterring the militia from attacking them.

Earlier last month, the Somali police seized a car laden with explosives in a busy junction of Mogadishu.

Police found a 4×4 parked between the strategic, government-controlled K4 junction and Mogadishu airport and said the car bomb could have been detonated remotely by mobile phone.

The car bomb was found in an area traditionally seen as the safest in the capital, housing several U.N. agency buildings as well as bases for African Union peacekeepers. Al Shabaab had been unable to wrest it from government control.

By Dahir Alasow