Three witnesses told Reuters the blast had taken place next to a small group of Turkish engineers who were
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constructing a road.
Somali Foreign Minister Ahmed Awad tweeted that two of the Turkish engineers died.
Many of the dead were "students
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with ambition, and hardworking men and women", he wrote.
Turkey has been a major donor to Somalia since a famine in 2011.
President Mohamed Abdullahi
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Farmaajo condemned the attack.
"This enemy works to implement the destructive will of international terrorism, they have never done anything positive for this our country, they have not constructed a road, never built hospitals and not education centres as well," he was quoted as saying by the Somalia national news agency Sonna.
"All they do is destruction and killing
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Five people were killed earlier this month when al-Shabab attacked a Mogadishu hotel popular with politicians, diplomats and military officers.