{"id":12565,"date":"2023-09-13T22:42:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T22:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=12565"},"modified":"2023-09-16T10:56:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T10:56:14","slug":"8-injured-as-car-bomb-targets-army-checkpoint-in-mogadishu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2023\/09\/13\/8-injured-as-car-bomb-targets-army-checkpoint-in-mogadishu\/","title":{"rendered":"8 injured as car bomb targets army checkpoint in Moga.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;\u00a0 <\/strong>At least eight people, including security personnel, were wounded in a car bomb attack in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, an official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The attack targeted a security checkpoint in the neighborhood of Deyniile in Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA car full of explosives targeted our security forces checkpoint today. Eight people were wounded and rushed to a hospital for treatment,\u201d Ali Hassan, a security official in the Hodan district of Mogadishu, told Anadolu over the phone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Al-Shabaab terrorists claimed responsibility for the bombing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Somali Defense Ministry said Wednesday that the army conducted an operation in the southwestern Bay region targeting senior al-Shabaab terrorist leaders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement, the ministry said the forces \u201celiminated\u201d the head of finance in the Bay region and other senior al-Shabaab terrorists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Horn of Africa country has been plagued by insecurity for years, with the main threats emanating from al-Shabaab and the Daesh\/ISIS terror groups.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since 2007, the al-Shabaab terror group has been fighting the Somali government and the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), a multidimensional mission authorized by the African Union and mandated by the United Nations Security Council.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The terror group has increased attacks since Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who was elected for a second term last year, declared an &#8220;all-out war&#8221; on al-Shabaab.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Source: Anadolu Agency\u00a0 \u00a0Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/africa\/8-injured-as-car-bomb-targets-army-checkpoint-in-somali-capital\/2991093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212;\u00a0 At least eight people, including security personnel, were wounded in a car bomb attack in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, an official said. The attack targeted a security checkpoint in the neighborhood of Deyniile in Mogadishu. \u201cA car full of explosives targeted our security forces checkpoint today. Eight people were wounded and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-protection-cluster"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12565"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12573,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12565\/revisions\/12573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}