By Aweys Osman Yusuf

Mogadishu, 17 May 2007 - Somali government spokesman, Abdi Haji Goobdoon, has told Shabelle that two men threw a hand grenade at the prime minister's convoy that was passing near Ministry of Information.

The bomb did not explode, however.

"There was no explosion and the government soldiers soon seized one suspect while the other one escaped," he said.

Gedi was heading towards Mogadishu international airport to witness the bodies of five Ugandan soldiers killed in a roadside bomb in Mogadishu yesterday being flown to Uganda.

Source: SMN