{"id":5173,"date":"2020-05-28T08:22:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T08:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=5173"},"modified":"2020-05-30T08:44:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T08:44:21","slug":"aid-group-seven-health-workers-civilian-killed-in-somali-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2020\/05\/28\/aid-group-seven-health-workers-civilian-killed-in-somali-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Aid group: Seven health workers, civilian killed in Somali village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> Seven health workers and a civilian were killed in a village north of the Somali capital after being abducted by masked men in military uniforms on Wednesday, a director of a local aid group said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cArmed masked men kidnapped seven of our health workers and a civilian from a health centre run by Zamzam Foundation at about 1 p.m. yesterday. We got their dead bodies today,\u201d Omar Jama, the foundation\u2019s executive director, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident happened in Galooley village in the outskirts of Balad district, 30 km (19 miles) north of Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the killing, which followed several days of clashes between security forces and insurgents belonging to the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition to healthcare, Zamzam Foundation &#8211; founded in 1992 &#8211; is also involved in providing education, taking care of orphans, and peace-building.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since 2008, al Shabaab has been fighting to overthrow Somalia\u2019s central government and establish its own rule based on its own harsh interpretation of Islam\u2019s sharia law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Somalia has been mired in conflict since 1991 when clan warlords overthrew dictator Siad Barre and then turned on each other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Reuters\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-somalia-security\/seven-health-workers-civilian-killed-in-somali-village-aid-group-idUSKBN2343DV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; Seven health workers and a civilian were killed in a village north of the Somali capital after being abducted by masked men in military uniforms on Wednesday, a director of a local aid group said on Thursday. \u201cArmed masked men kidnapped seven of our health workers and a civilian from a health centre &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,24,1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health-cluster","category-international-humanitarian-law","category-news","category-relief"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173","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=5173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5177,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions\/5177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}