{"id":10874,"date":"2022-09-03T23:22:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T23:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=10874"},"modified":"2022-09-14T11:32:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T11:32:31","slug":"hiiraan-at-least-twenty-killed-in-terrorist-attack-on-aid-convoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2022\/09\/03\/hiiraan-at-least-twenty-killed-in-terrorist-attack-on-aid-convoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiiraan: At least 20 killed in terrorist attack on aid convoy"},"content":{"rendered":"

MOGADISHU — <\/strong>Terrorist group\u00a0al-Shabab killed at least 20 people and burned seven vehicles that were transporting food relief in the central Hiiraan region of Somalia on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

Four trucks carrying goods and three passenger minibuses were set on fire near the remote town of Mahas.<\/p>\n

“Passengers were killed, wounded or just narrowly escaped on foot,” the region’s former governor Abdifitah Hassan Afrah told the dpa news agency. “Families were looking for their loved ones this morning.”<\/p>\n

The convoy was being\u00a0reportedly escorted by Somali authorities and African Union\u00a0peacekeeping troops at the time.<\/p>\n

Al-Shabab attacks intensifying<\/span><\/p>\n

The attack comes almost a month after al-Shabab stormed and took hostages\u00a0inside a popular hotel in Mogadishu.\u00a0At least 21 people died during\u00a0the attack and subsequent 30-hour-long\u00a0shootout.<\/p>\n

Mohamed Bakaay, a Somali military official, said al-Shabab has intensified attacks on civilians in the past 48 hours around Hiiraan and the neighboring Galgaduud region. Local authorities found and destroyed al-Shabab landmines in recent days.<\/p>\n

“The militants have destroyed several boreholes with bombs and set fire on homes and businesses in more than eight villages in both provinces,” Bakaay said.<\/p>\n

Al-Shabab has been at war with Somalia’s central government\u00a0for more than a decade. It wants to establish its own rule based on an extreme interpretation of Islamic law.<\/p>\n

“Al-Shabab is doing all these things in order to make us surrender,” local elder Farah Aden told Reuters news agency. “But we shall never surrender to al-Shabab as long as there is soul in us.”<\/p>\n

Source: DW, AP, Reuters, dpa\u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: View original<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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