{"id":6746,"date":"2020-10-20T22:24:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T22:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=6746"},"modified":"2020-10-24T08:34:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T08:34:51","slug":"landmine-targets-top-somali-govt-official-in-mogadishu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2020\/10\/20\/landmine-targets-top-somali-govt-official-in-mogadishu\/","title":{"rendered":"Landmine targets top somali govt official in Mogadishu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> A landmine blast killed at least 2 people and injured several others on Tuesday in Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The explosion targeted Director-General of Immigration and Naturalization Directorate Mohamed Aden Koofi in KM 4 near hotel Afrik in the capital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The director-general escaped unscathed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but Al-Qaeda linked group Alshabab have conducted similar attacks in the past.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In July this year, Somalia\u2019s military chief narrowly escaped death after a suicide attacker drove a bomb-laden car into a convoy in the capital Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group said it was behind that attack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The group was chased away from Mogadishu in 2011 but they still conduct hit and run attacks targeting government officials, NGO workers, AMISOM, and sometimes the civilians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Radio Dalsan\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Origin:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiodalsan.com\/en\/2020\/10\/20\/immagration-chief-survives-ied-attack-in-mogadishu\/\" 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; A landmine blast killed at least 2 people and injured several others on Tuesday in Mogadishu. The explosion targeted Director-General of Immigration and Naturalization Directorate Mohamed Aden Koofi in KM 4 near hotel Afrik in the capital. The director-general escaped unscathed. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but Al-Qaeda linked group &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[1185,1186,981,98,1187],"class_list":["post-6746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-protection-cluster","tag-director-general","tag-immigration","tag-landmine-blast","tag-mogadishu","tag-mohamed-koofi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746","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=6746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6749,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions\/6749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}