<span style="color: #222222;">In Somalia, at least 15 people were killed and more than 50 injured in three bombings in the central Hirshabelle state yesterday.<br />''<br />''In Bulobarde town, some 220 kilometres north of Mogadishu, a suicide car bomb has killed at least 11 people. At least four people were killed when a powerful car bomb exploded near a Somali military checkpoint in Jalalaqsi town.<br />''<br />''Another one went off almost simultaneously nearby when security officials shot the driver of the vehicle.<br />''<br />''Both the towns of Jalalaqsi and Bulobarde are important trading and farming towns located along the banks of the Shabelle River, and they also are the second and third-biggest towns in Hiran province.</span><br />''<br />