Mogadishu — An explosion at a private house near the town of Baidoa injured six people, including two women on Wednesday, witnesses said.

It was unclear whether the incident, which happened in the town, was a deliberate attack or caused by a misguided rocket.

Eyewitness Mohamed Moqtar says the bomb was beleaguered on Somali government troop's convoy was passing between the clothes market of the town and grind food market.

Another eyewitness Yusuf Haji says that the troops have suffered no casualities but the blast injured civilians nearby.

Baidoa has been more peaceful than the seaside capital Mogadishu, where frequent insurgent attacks targeting government troops and their Ethiopian military allies are blamed on an ousted Islamist group but in the recent months it has experienced deadly attacks.

Somalia has been without an effective government since the toppling of dictator Mohammed Siad Barre in 1991, plunging the country into lawlessness and warlord rule. African Union troops began deploying to the Horn of Africa country earlier this month.