{"id":9197,"date":"2021-11-19T22:27:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T22:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=9197"},"modified":"2021-11-21T11:37:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T11:37:27","slug":"at-least-8-dead-13-wounded-in-somalia-market-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2021\/11\/19\/at-least-8-dead-13-wounded-in-somalia-market-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 8 dead, 13 wounded in Somalia market blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;\u00a0 <\/strong>At least eight people were killed and 13 others wounded in a bomb blast in Somalia\u2019s South West State on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The explosion occurred in a busy market in the town of Berdale, located some 310 kilometers (192 miles) from the capital Mogadishu, a police official told Anadolu Agency over the phone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cCommunications are cut off in the area but we can confirm that at least eight people, mostly civilians, have died and 13 more are injured,\u201d said Mohammed Ahmed Isaq, a cop in Baidoa, the administrative capital of South West State.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThree of the wounded are in critical condition, while the injuries of the rest are not life-threatening,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No group has yet claimed responsibility for the blast, but the al-Shabaab terrorist group has ramped up attacks in Somalia over recent days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was also behind two back-to-back attacks in Mogadishu last week, one of which was a suicide bombing targeting a convoy of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) that killed three people and injured several more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amid the rising insecurity, Somali forces have ramped up operations against the group, which is affiliated with the al-Qaeda terrorist organization.\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Anadolu Agency\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/africa\/at-least-8-dead-13-wounded-in-somalia-market-blast\/2425528\" 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;\u00a0 At least eight people were killed and 13 others wounded in a bomb blast in Somalia\u2019s South West State on Friday. The explosion occurred in a busy market in the town of Berdale, located some 310 kilometers (192 miles) from the capital Mogadishu, a police official told Anadolu Agency over the phone. \u201cCommunications &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9197","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\/9197","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=9197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9200,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9197\/revisions\/9200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}