Blast strikes Somali PM's rally

A blast has killed at least eight people and injured 30 at a rally in a football stadium in Somalia's capital being addressed by the prime minister.

The explosion went off as Ali Mohammed Ghedi began his speech. He later told the BBC that a security guard had accidentally set off a grenade.

Mr Ghedi, on his first Mogadishu visit since being appointed, is negotiating his government's return from exile.

Somalia has had no functioning central authority since 1991.

Mogadishu is considered to be an especially dangerous location for the government to be based in.

'Not deterred'

The BBC's Mohammed Olad Hassan in Mogadishu says that several thousand Somalis, who had gone to welcome the prime minister, waving flags and chanting pro-government slogans, fled from the stadium in panic.