{"id":19051,"date":"2019-03-20T04:17:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T04:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mustaqbalradio.net\/?p=19051"},"modified":"2019-03-20T04:17:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T04:17:40","slug":"air-strike-kills-four-people-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/air-strike-kills-four-people-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Air strike kills four people in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An air strike near the Somalian town of Afgoye has killed four people, a relative of one of the victims told Reuters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adzone-outstream\" class=\"advertising advertising--no-label js-adzone advertising--outstream advertising--called advertising--rendered\" data-google-query-id=\"CPL01ILuj-ECFdnHUQodnFUCww\"><\/div>\n<p>Abdiqadir Nur, an employee of telecommunications company Hormuud Telecom, and three others died at around 01:30 GMT as they drove through the village of Laanta Buuro in the country&#8217;s southwestern Lower Shabelle region, about 45km (28 miles) from the capital Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nur and three others died on the spot. His brother Mahad Nur is totally burnt,&#8221; Nur&#8217;s cousin Abdullahi Ali said.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the strike. The U.S. frequently carries out such attacks in the Horn of Africa country.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks are to support Somalia&#8217;s U.N.-backed central government which has been battling Islamist group Al Shabaab for years.<\/p>\n<p>The militants were pushed out of Mogadishu in 2011, but retain a strong presence in southern and central parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Al Shabaab says relatives of those killed in air strikes are often motivated to join the militant group, which wants to impose strict Islamic law in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: Reuters<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An air strike near the Somalian town of Afgoye has killed four people, a relative of one of the victims told Reuters on Tuesday. Abdiqadir Nur, an employee of telecommunications company Hormuud Telecom, and three others died at around 01:30 GMT as they drove through the village of Laanta Buuro in the country&#8217;s southwestern Lower&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}