{"id":97308,"date":"2017-04-07T01:54:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T05:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=97308"},"modified":"2017-04-07T01:54:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T05:54:22","slug":"at-least-20-killed-as-landmine-hit-commuter-minibus-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/07\/at-least-20-killed-as-landmine-hit-commuter-minibus-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 20 killed as landmine hit commuter minibus in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_97309\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97309\" style=\"width: 515px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MarkaSomalia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97309\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MarkaSomalia.jpg\" alt=\"At least 20 passengers were killed when their commuter minibus they were traveling in was hit by a landmine in Lower Shabelle region of southern Somalia on Thursday evening, officials said. (Photo by Scoobycentric (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0) or GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html)],)\" width=\"515\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MarkaSomalia.jpg 515w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MarkaSomalia-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At least 20 passengers were killed when their commuter minibus they were traveling in was hit by a landmine in Lower Shabelle region of southern Somalia on Thursday evening, officials said. (Photo by<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AMarka%2CSomalia.jpg\"> Scoobycentric (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0) or GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html)],<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>MOGADISHU\u2014At least 20 passengers were killed when their commuter minibus they were traveling in was hit by a landmine in Lower Shabelle region of southern Somalia on Thursday evening, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Governor of Lower Shabelle region for Security Affairs Ali Nure Mohamed told reporters that Al-Shabaab militants planted the landmine on the ground to blow up African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) vehicles using the road.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The deadly incident happened in Golweyne town this evening. Twenty civilians, mostly women on a minibus from Barawe town and heading to Marka town in lower Shabelle were killed in a landmine blast,&#8221; said Mohamed.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the militants intended to target AU vehicles that often use the way joining Barawe town and Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p>Deadly incidents of civilians on board often take place routinely in the region due to either landmine blasts or accidents involving AMISOM troops.<\/p>\n<p>No group has claimed responsibility for the latest attack but Al-Shabaab militants are believed to be behind the blast as the group has previously carried out similar attacks on Somalia and AU troops in the Horn of Africa nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU\u2014At least 20 passengers were killed when their commuter minibus they were traveling in was hit by a landmine in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":97309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[17632],"class_list":["post-97308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-landmine","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}