{"id":8288,"date":"2021-06-08T21:50:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T21:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=8288"},"modified":"2021-06-21T10:53:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T10:53:12","slug":"landmine-explosion-kills-police-officer-near-the-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2021\/06\/08\/landmine-explosion-kills-police-officer-near-the-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Landmine explosion kills police officer near the capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> At least one police officer was killed and several people wounded, a landmine exploded in Jazeera beach in Lower Shabelle region, an official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Hussein Jilow, Jazeera area Commissioner, said the landmine exploded at a checkpoint and killed an officer manning the beach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but Hussein pointed a finger on al-Qaeda- affiliated group al-Shabaab who carried out similar attacks in the past.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Jazeera beach is located around 13km south of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. It is a very popular beach destination for locals who enjoy relaxing at this beach every day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Despite being forced out of the capital and other major urban areas in Somalia by national and African Union peacekeeping forces, Al-Shabaab militants have carried out deadly bombings and attacks in Mogadishu and elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Their main targets have included hotels, military checkpoints, and the presidential palace including social gatherings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Radio Dalsan\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiodalsan.com\/en\/2021\/06\/08\/landmine-explosion-kills-police-officer-near-somali-capital\/\" 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; At least one police officer was killed and several people wounded, a landmine exploded in Jazeera beach in Lower Shabelle region, an official said. Hussein Jilow, Jazeera area Commissioner, said the landmine exploded at a checkpoint and killed an officer manning the beach. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but &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":[],"class_list":["post-8288","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\/8288","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=8288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8323,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8288\/revisions\/8323"}],"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=8288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}