{"id":13327,"date":"2024-02-07T22:14:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T22:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=13327"},"modified":"2024-02-10T09:02:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T09:02:33","slug":"bomb-attack-in-afgoye-kills-five-people-and-injures-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2024\/02\/07\/bomb-attack-in-afgoye-kills-five-people-and-injures-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb attack in Afgoye kills 5 people and injures others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212; <\/strong>At least five people were killed Wednesday and 10 wounded in a\u00a0bomb attack\u00a0in\u00a0Somalia&#8217;s lower\u00a0Shabelle\u00a0region in the state of South West, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The attack involved an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) that targeted a security checkpoint in the town of Afgoye, said Ibrahim Ali, a security official in South West who spoke to Anadolu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the number of wounded included civilians and security personnel who were rushed to hospitals and medical facilities in the national capital of Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Afgoye is a strategic agricultural town 30 kilometers (18 miles) southwest of Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the bombing comes hours after\u00a0al-Shabaab\u00a0claimed responsibility for a bomb attack in the port city of Bosaso that targeted a senior security official in the semiautonomous state of Puntland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Somalia has been plagued by insecurity for years, with the main threats emanating from al-Shabaab and the\u00a0Daesh\/ISIS\u00a0terror groups.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since 2007, al-Shabaab has been fighting the Somali government and the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) &#8212; a multidimensional mission authorized by the African Union and mandated by the UN Security Council.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The terror group has stepped up attacks since Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who was elected for a second term in 2022, declared an &#8220;all-out war&#8221; on the group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Radio Dalsan\u00a0 \u00a0 Origin:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiodalsan.com\/bomb-attack-in-afgoye-kills-five-people-and-injures-others\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; At least five people were killed Wednesday and 10 wounded in a\u00a0bomb attack\u00a0in\u00a0Somalia&#8217;s lower\u00a0Shabelle\u00a0region in the state of South West, according to officials. The attack involved an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) that targeted a security checkpoint in the town of Afgoye, said Ibrahim Ali, a security official in South West who spoke to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13327","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\/13327","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=13327"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13339,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13327\/revisions\/13339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}