{"id":13941,"date":"2024-04-29T22:39:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=13941"},"modified":"2024-04-30T13:43:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T13:43:01","slug":"roadside-blast-kills-6-workers-in-mogadishu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2024\/04\/29\/roadside-blast-kills-6-workers-in-mogadishu\/","title":{"rendered":"Roadside blast kills 6 workers in Mogadishu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> At least six telecom workers were killed in a roadside blast on the outskirts of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hormuud Telecom, a telecommunication company, said in a statement that six of its employees were travelling to the company&#8217;s offices when their vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device in Garasbaaley district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We express our deepest condolences to their families, friends, and colleagues, and pray for their eternal peace,&#8221; the company said in a statement issued on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No group has claimed responsibility for the latest attack on the workers of the privately-owned telecom company but a similar blast destroyed the company&#8217;s offices in Mogadishu on March 19.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The telecom company has assisted in the distribution of humanitarian aid to millions of Somalis who have been affected by the drought and flooding across the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Xinhua\u00a0 \u00a0Origin:<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/africa\/20240429\/2832999ed0354a369d3519c47917d675\/c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\">View original<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; At least six telecom workers were killed in a roadside blast on the outskirts of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday. Hormuud Telecom, a telecommunication company, said in a statement that six of its employees were travelling to the company&#8217;s offices when their vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device in Garasbaaley district. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13941","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\/13941","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=13941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13942,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13941\/revisions\/13942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}