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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - An explosion at the African Union (AU) outpatients' clinic near Mogadishu's airport on Monday killed at least one person, the spokesman for African Union peacekeepers in Somalia said.

"I have confirmed one dead. I do not know whether it is one of our soldiers or a Somali. The explosion took place when the OPD clinic was being closed," said spokesman Barigye Ba-hoku.

"I am now heading to the hospital where other casualties were taken," he said.

The hospital run by the AU mission AMISOM, made up of troops from Uganda and Burundi, is within its main Halane base behind Mogadishu's airport.

The hospital also treats Somalis wounded in the almost daily violence in the Horn of Africa nation's capital.

Insurgents often fire mortar rounds at AMISOM's airport base but many land without causing casualties.

Twin suicide car bombs struck the AU headquarters in September killing 17 peacekeepers, including the Burundian deputy commander of the force.