{"id":6628,"date":"2020-10-07T23:55:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T23:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=6628"},"modified":"2020-10-11T07:36:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T07:36:10","slug":"landmine-kills-6-soldiers-in-middle-shabelle-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2020\/10\/07\/landmine-kills-6-soldiers-in-middle-shabelle-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Landmine kills 6 soldiers in Middle Shabelle region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BAL&#8217;AD &#8212;<\/strong> At least six soldiers were killed and four others wounded after a landmine exploded Bal\u2019ad district in Middle Shabelle region on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the residents the landmine was targeting the vehicle of the district commissioner of Balad in c which was at the time carrying the bodyguards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement posted on its online affiliate media, the Al-Shabaab terror group claimed responsibility for the attack saying the landmine explosion killed a bodyguard of the Balad district commissioner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The attack comes a day after 20 passengers on board of a minibus lost their lives after it exploded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Al-Shabaab which is an al-Qaida affiliate militant group has been fighting Somalia\u2019s weak government-backed by the international community for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite losing many territories including the capital, al-Shabaab is still capable of carrying out deadly attacks on the military bases and major towns in the horn of Africa nation and its neighbours including Kenya.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Radio Dalsan\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiodalsan.com\/en\/2020\/10\/07\/al-shababs-landmine-kills-six-in-middle-shabelle-region\/\" 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>BAL&#8217;AD &#8212; At least six soldiers were killed and four others wounded after a landmine exploded Bal\u2019ad district in Middle Shabelle region on Wednesday. According to the residents the landmine was targeting the vehicle of the district commissioner of Balad in c which was at the time carrying the bodyguards. In a statement posted on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[1103,1095,1097,1098,1099,1101,1102,1100,1096,1094],"class_list":["post-6628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-protection-cluster","tag-20-passengers","tag-al-shabab","tag-at-least-six-soldiers","tag-balad-district","tag-commissioner-of-balad","tag-deadly-attacks","tag-government-backed","tag-international-community","tag-landmine","tag-middle-shabelle-region"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628","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=6628"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6636,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628\/revisions\/6636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}