{"id":8049,"date":"2021-05-19T23:12:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T23:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=8049"},"modified":"2021-05-20T07:19:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T07:19:52","slug":"four-dead-several-injured-in-jowhar-roadside-bomb-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2021\/05\/19\/four-dead-several-injured-in-jowhar-roadside-bomb-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"Four dead, several injured in Jowhar roadside bomb blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;\u00a0<\/strong>At least four soldiers were killed and several others injured on Wednesday in a roadside bomb blast targeting a military vehicle in southern Somalia, an official confirmed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abdi Mohamed Hassan, a police officer in the Middle Shabelle region, told Anadolu Agency that the targeted vehicle was part of a military convoy traveling to Jowhar after clashes between regional security forces and armed militia erupted in the town, killing at least 10 people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The bomb blast was a landmine explosion, and as the result of the blast, at least four soldiers including a senior commander, were killed and several others wounded,\u201d Hassan said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mohamed Abdi Ware, the former president of Hirshabelle state, said, &#8220;The events in Jowhar today shocked me. May Allah have mercy on those who died,\u201d mentioning Ali Madobe, a Hirshabelle presidential official, and Commander Dhisow Mohamed Qeelshe, a top security official.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Al-Qaeda-affiliated group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Anadolu Agency\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/africa\/4-somali-soldiers-killed-several-injured-in-blast\/2247447\" 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;\u00a0At least four soldiers were killed and several others injured on Wednesday in a roadside bomb blast targeting a military vehicle in southern Somalia, an official confirmed. Abdi Mohamed Hassan, a police officer in the Middle Shabelle region, told Anadolu Agency that the targeted vehicle was part of a military convoy traveling to Jowhar &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8049","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\/8049","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=8049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8051,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049\/revisions\/8051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}