{"id":7448,"date":"2021-02-08T21:41:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T21:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=7448"},"modified":"2021-02-12T06:53:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T06:53:53","slug":"four-peacekeepers-injured-as-helicopter-crashes-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2021\/02\/08\/four-peacekeepers-injured-as-helicopter-crashes-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Four peacekeepers injured as helicopter crashes in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;\u00a0<\/strong>Four soldiers serving under the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) were wounded when their helicopter crashed in Somalia&#8217;s lower Shabelle region, the mission said Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident took place at a US military base at Balidogle airfield in lower Shabelle region, located 96 kilometers (60 miles) southwest of the capital Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA helicopter on a mission to support AMISOM troops crashed soon after take-off in Balidogle in the lower Shabelle region of Somalia on Friday. All four soldiers aboard the helicopter were rescued and are in a stable condition,\u201d said a statement by the peacekeeping mission in the Horn of Africa country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lt. Col. Daniel Mugoro, a spokesman for the mission, told Anadolu Agency by phone an initial report suggested the helicopter crashed due to a mechanical fault, adding further investigation was underway.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Anadolu Agency\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/africa\/somalia-4-peacekeepers-injured-as-helicopter-crashes\/2137715\" 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;\u00a0Four soldiers serving under the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) were wounded when their helicopter crashed in Somalia&#8217;s lower Shabelle region, the mission said Monday. The incident took place at a US military base at Balidogle airfield in lower Shabelle region, located 96 kilometers (60 miles) southwest of the capital Mogadishu. \u201cA helicopter &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7448","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\/7448","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=7448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7454,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448\/revisions\/7454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}