A land mine exploded in the Somali capital killing five bus passengers and injuring three others Tuesday, hours after attacks in southern and central Somalia killed eight people, including a 4-year-old, said witnesses. «A land mine went off as a government vehicle passed by and the explosion hit my public bus, killing five passengers, including a woman,» The Associated Press quoted Ahmed Ali, the driver of the bus that was carrying passengers in the southern neighborhoods of Mogadishu, as saying.