Mogadishu , Somalia ( CNN ) -- Five people were killed and 10 were wounded Friday by a car bombing near a peacekeeper convoy in the Somali capital , officials said . All of those killed or injured were Somali civilians , according to Abdikafi Hilowle , administration secretary for the Benadir region . The blast happened as a convoy of African Union Mission in Somalia , or AMISOM , personnel passed a United Nations Development Program compound in Mogadishu , Hilowle said . This is the latest in a series of attacks in the city , the heart of an unstable nation beset with civil strife . Government and African Union forces have been battling Islamic militants for years in an effort to bring stability to the land . Last month , more than a dozen people were killed in an attack on the U.N. headquarters in Mogadishu . Friday 's attack appeared to be aimed at the convoy , AMISOM spokesman Col. Ali Aden Houmed said , adding that the incident is under investigation . The African Union Mission in Somalia is an African Union-operated peacekeeping group .
Bombing appears to target peacekeeping convoy , African Union official says . The bombing is the latest in series of attacks in Somalia 's capital .