{"id":14778,"date":"2024-08-21T23:44:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T23:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=14778"},"modified":"2024-08-22T15:29:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T15:29:25","slug":"at-least-five-soldiers-killed-in-car-bomb-attack-in-mogadishu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2024\/08\/21\/at-least-five-soldiers-killed-in-car-bomb-attack-in-mogadishu\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 5 soldiers killed in car bomb attack in Mogadishu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> A car bomb explosion in the Garasbaaley district of Mogadishu on Wednesday killed at least five government soldiers and wounded several others, according to local sources.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The attack occurred near a Somali intelligence security checkpoint on the road between the Ma\u2019ani and Tareedishe neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The militant group al-Shabaab, which claimed responsibility for the explosion, stated that the blast targeted security forces stationed at the checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Government officials have not yet commented on the incident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The attack marks the third explosion in Mogadishu within the last 30 days, reflecting a surge in violence in the capital. Earlier this month, the group killed over 37 civilians and wounded 212 in an attack at a popular beach restaurant in Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was the deadliest attack in the Horn of Africa country since twin car bombs detonated near a busy market intersection in October 2022, killing at least 100 people and wounding 300 others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Source: HOL\u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/hiiraan.com\/news4\/2024\/Aug\/197630\/at_least_five_soldiers_killed_in_car_bomb_attack_in_mogadishu.aspx?utm_source=hiiraan&amp;utm_medium=SomaliNewsUpdateFront\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\">View original<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; A car bomb explosion in the Garasbaaley district of Mogadishu on Wednesday killed at least five government soldiers and wounded several others, according to local sources. The attack occurred near a Somali intelligence security checkpoint on the road between the Ma\u2019ani and Tareedishe neighborhoods. The militant group al-Shabaab, which claimed responsibility for the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14778","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\/14778","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=14778"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14786,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14778\/revisions\/14786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}